Leonardo DA VINCI (b. 1452, Vinci, Republic of Florence [now in Italy]--d. May 2, 1519, Cloux, Fr.), Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose genius, perhaps more than that ...
... writings from the master himself Leonardo on the Human Body , includes some of his best sketches The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci , with both his text and illustrations Leonardo: Painter, Inventor ...
Leonardo da Vinci was the embodiment of the Renaissance ideal of the universal man, the first artist to attain complete mastery over all branches of art.
6 Columbia University art historian James Beck retorts, "As sure as the moon is not made of green cheese, this is not da Vinci in drag." 7 Then again, unusual for a painter, Leonardo left no ...