Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)
The notebooks sketch flying machines, tank prototypes, and anatomical studies centuries ahead of their time — but most of those designs stayed on paper. The paintings, though, moved the world.
Born out of wedlock in 1452 near Vinci, he trained under Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence before spending years in service to Ludovico Sforza in Milan. He worked across Florence, Milan, and Rome, gathering students and imitators, then spent his final three years in France at the invitation of Francis I, dying there in 1519. Fewer than 25 major works survived — many unfinished, more lost — but among them are the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and the Vitruvian Man. He filled notebooks with discoveries in anatomy, optics, engineering, and hydrodynamics, conceptualising helicopters, solar power, an…
Sourced, dated quotes from Leonardo da Vinci
Subito salse in me due cose: paura e desiderio: paura per la minacciante e scura spelonca, desiderio per vedere se là entro fusse alcuna miracolosa cosa. (Ancient Italian)
truovasi di miglio i(n) miglio bone osteriee. (Ancient Italian)
Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.
The painter strives and competes with nature...There is nothing in all nature without its reason. If you know the reason, you do not need the experience...
Look at the grace and sweetness of men and women in the street...
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