* 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 drew many studies of the human skeleton and its parts, as well as muscles and sinews.

Leonardo also studied and drew the anatomy of many animals, dissecting cows, birds, monkeys, bears, and frogs, and comparing in his drawings their anatomical structure with that of humans.

Leonardo da Vinci drew a picture of the flyer, which twists the yarn before winding it onto the spindle.

Leonardo da Vinci drew sketches of a concept for a ropemaking machine, but it was never built.

It drew a rebuttal from the president of the SDMI, Dr. Leonardo Chiariglione.

Escher drew the octahedral compound of Stars in a beveled wire-frame style that was previously used by Leonardo da Vinci in his illustrations for Luca Pacioli's book, De divina proportione.

One can only imagine how, over a few years, both Leonardo and Bramante – foreigners and equally attracted by the theme of the centralized church – had much to question and discuss .” ( Rowe & Satkowski p14 ) Although Leonardo was never to design or construct a single building he drew numerous sketches in which the concept was explored ( fig ).

Alberti believed in ideal beauty, but Leonardo filled his notebooks with observations on human proportions, page after page, ending with the famous drawing on the Vitruvian man, a human figure related to a square and a circle.

The Vitruvian Man is a world-renowned drawing created by Leonardo da Vinci circa 1487.

Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci, an illustration of the human body inscribed in the circle and the square derived from a passage about geometry and human proportions in Vitruvius ' writings

Leonardo Da Vinchi's Vitruvian Man

* Leonardo da Vinci creates his " Vitruvian Man " drawing ( approximate date ).

Many of the sacred geometry principles of the human body and of ancient architecture have been compiled into the Vitruvian Man drawing by Leonardo Da Vinci, itself based on the much older writings of the roman architect Vitruvius.

Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man ( ca.

However, the 1 euro coin was missing in this election, because Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, the then Economy minister, had already decided it would sport the Vitruvian man of Leonardo da Vinci.

The navel is the center of the circle enclosing the spread-eagle figure in Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man drawing.

Ciampi chose the Vitruvian man of Leonardo da Vinci, on the symbolic grounds that it represented man as a measure of all things, and in particular of the coin: in this perspective, money was at the service of man, instead of its opposite.

The set was almost bare, with a hanging replica of Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man above a bare stage.

The square contains statues of Christopher Columbus, Simón Bolívar, José de San Martín, Prince Henry the Navigator, the 1st Marquess of Westminster, a bust of George Basevi, and a sculpture entitled Homage to Leonardo, the Vitruvian Man, by Italian sculptor Enzo Plazzotta.

The notes on Leonardo da Vinci's famous Vitruvian Man image are in mirror writing.

Leonardo da Vinci | Da Vinci's Vitruvian Man epitomizes Renaissance artistic and scientific advances.

The Vitruvian Man is a drawing created by Leonardo da Vinci circa 1487.

Encyclopaedia Britannica online states, " Leonardo envisaged the great picture chart of the human body he had produced through his anatomical drawings and Vitruvian Man as a cosmografia del minor mondo ( cosmography of the microcosm ).

The following year he excerpted the section of his monograph concerned with the Vitruvian Man and published it as Delle opinioni di Leonardo da Vinci intorno alla simmetria de ' Corpi Umani ( 1811 ), with a dedication to his friend Antonio Canova.

This is a common condition typically treated by surgery in the modern-era, but may also reflect that Leonardo da Vinci may have based the Vitruvian Man on a cadaver who may have died from this condition.

The circular crew patch was Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, retouched to remove the genitalia.

Le Corbusier developed the Modulor in the long tradition of Vitruvius, Leonardo da Vinci's Vitruvian Man, the work of Leone Battista Alberti, and other attempts to discover mathematical proportions in the human body and then to use that knowledge to improve both the appearance and function of architecture.

The cover art, produced by Andy Votel, is loosely based on Leonardo Da Vinci's drawing " Vitruvian Man ".

Drawing of Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci ( 1487 ).

Leonardo da Vinci ( Drawing of Vitruvian Man ),

Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci.