* 1916 – World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.

Leonardo da Vinci was the archetypal Renaissance man representing the humanistic values of the period in his art, science and writing.

Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Raphael, Titian, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Donatello, Master splinter and Shredder

* Genius: Leonardo da Vinci

Anagrams are also often used in fiction for character aliases, such as Tom Marvolo Riddle = I am Lord Voldemort, Leonardo da vinci = O Draconian Devil, The Mona Lisa

In some ways, Allori is the last of the line of prominent Florentine painters, of generally undiluted Tuscan artistic heritage: Andrea del Sarto worked with Fra Bartolomeo ( as well as Leonardo da Vinci ), Pontormo briefly worked under Andrea, and trained Bronzino, who trained Allori.

Roger Bacon and Leonardo da Vinci were some of the first modern Europeans to study aeronautics.

Another very concrete example describes an aesthetically pleasing human face whose proportions can be described by very few bits of information, drawing inspiration from less detailed 15th century proportion studies by Leonardo da Vinci and Albrecht Dürer.

His reputation had spread throughout Europe and he was on friendly terms and in communication with most of the major artists including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and — mainly through Lorenzo di Credi — Leonardo da Vinci.

He was also familiar with the ' abbreviated construction ' as described by Alberti and the geometrical construction of shadows, a technique of Leonardo da Vinci.

A drawing of a design for a flying machine by Leonardo da Vinci ( c. 1488 ).

Although observations of some aerodynamic effects such as wind resistance ( e. g. drag ) were recorded by Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei, very little effort was made to develop a rigorous quantitative theory of air flow prior to the 17th century.

In 1505, Leonardo da Vinci wrote the Codex on the Flight of Birds, one of the earliest treatises on aerodynamics.

There are groups of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, ( including his only surviving full-scale cartoon ), Dürer ( a collection of 138 drawings is one of the finest in existence ), Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Claude and Watteau, and largely complete collections of the works of all the great printmakers including Dürer ( 99 engravings, 6 etchings and most of his 346 woodcuts ), Rembrandt and Goya.

File: Il Condottiere. jpg | Leonardo da Vinci-Profile of a warrior in helmet ( c. 1472 )

File: Leonardo da vinci, Study for the Burlington House Cartoon. jpg | Leonardo da Vinci-The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist (' The Burlington House Cartoon ') ( c. 1499 – 1500 )

The Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci also made his own bestiary.

Sketch by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500

; Leonardo da Vinci's catapult: Leonardo da Vinci sought to improve the efficiency and range of earlier designs.

Image: The Annunciation. jpg | Annunciation by Leonardo Da Vinci

Cartoons by painters, such as the Raphael Cartoons in London and examples by Leonardo da Vinci, are highly prized in their own right.

Crankshafts were also described by Konrad Kyeser ( d. 1405 ), Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452 – 1519 ) and a Dutch " farmer " by the name Cornelis Corneliszoon van Uitgeest in 1592.

Cesare Borgia briefly employed Leonardo da Vinci as military architect and engineer between 1502 and 1503.

" Views of a Fetus in the Womb ", Leonardo da Vinci, ca.

* Notable draftsmen of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries include Leonardo da Vinci, Albrecht Dürer, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Donatello.

Line drawing in sanguine by Leonardo da Vinci

Their contemporary, Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452 – 1519 ) said,

* Leonardo da Vinci: The Anatomist ( 1930 )

* 1963 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C.

* Web Gallery of Leonardo Paintings

** Leonardo da Vinci, Gallery of Paintings and Drawings

* January 8 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C ..

In dire financial straits following the war, the Liechtenstein dynasty often resorted to selling family artistic treasures, including for instance the portrait " Ginevra de ' Benci " by Leonardo da Vinci, which was purchased by the National Gallery of Art of the United States in 1967.

* Leonardo da Vinci, Gallery of Paintings and Drawings

* Photo Gallery by Leonardo Bellotti

The Annunciation by Leonardo da Vinci ( 1472-1475 ) Uffizi Gallery.

He has appeared on many Trent Gardner releases ( including Leonardo: The Absolute Man and Explorer's Club ), as well as appearing on albums by such artists as Ayreon ( The Human Equation, released 2004 ), Shadow Gallery, Tim Donahue and Frameshift.

* On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery, by Percy Bysshe Shelley

* Leonardo da Vinci: Uffizi Gallery, Florence ( see also Adoration of the Magi ( Leonardo ))

A very similar painting in the National Gallery, London, is also ascribed to Leonardo da Vinci, and ascribed a date before 1508.

The National Gallery, in a preliminary announcement of the results of the work, said that it revealed that the painting was largely, possibly entirely, by Leonardo, and unfinished in parts.

From 8 November 2011 the Louvre Virgin of the Rocks has been exhibited in the National Gallery, London as part of an exhibition, Leonardo da Vinci: painter at the court of Milan.

Although the model of the painting " La Belle Ferroniere " is still shrouded in mystery, the landmark exhibition " Leonardo Da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan " ( National Gallery of Art in London, 9 Nov. 2011-5 Feb. 2012 ) listed the portrait as possibly depicting Beatrice d ' Este, wife of Ludovico Sforza.

In 1498, Leonardo probed into incorporating these figures together by drawing the Burlington House Cartoon ( National Gallery ).

The Annunciation is a painting by Italian Renaissance artists Leonardo da Vinci and Andrea del Verrocchio, dating from circa 1472 – 1475 and housed in the Uffizi Gallery of Florence, Italy.

The version of this painting often regarded as the most likely to be by Leonardo is now in the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh, on loan from the Duke of Buccleuch.