The original "Renaissance Man", Leonardo da Vinci was a great painter, designer, scientist, futurist and thinker. His works are even more popular now than they were in his day.
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.
Growing up in his father's Vinci home, Leonardo had access to scholarly texts owned by family and friends. He was also exposed to Vinci's longstanding painting tradition, and when he was about 15 his ...
It grabs hold of your imagination and answers all riddles in the end. You will never look at a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci the same way again.
The Artchive's Leonardo da Vinci Poster Store; Renaissance Art; excerpts from Leonardo on Painting; Learning about Leonardo ... From "Sister Wendy's Story of Painting": LEONARDO: RENAISSANCE POLYMATH "There ...