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.

For several generations, his family had been small-scale bankers in Florence, but his father, Ludovico di Leonardo di Buonarotto Simoni, failed to maintain the bank's financial status, and held occasional government positions.

The libretto was written for a dramma per musica in three acts by Francesco Gasparini, performed that same year in the Teatro San Cassiano in Venice, but the same libretto was put in music also by Nicola Porpora ( 1711, in Neaples, as Il trionfo di Flavio Anicio Olibrio ) and Leonardo Vinci ( Naples, 1728, as Ricimero ), and Andrea Bernasconi ( 1737, Wien, as Flavio Anicio Olibrio o La tirannide debellata ).

Leonardo da Vinci's Profilo di capitano antico, also known as il Condottiero, 1480.

It comprises the municipalities of San Pietro al Natisone, San Leonardo, Italy, Pulfero, Drenchia, Grimacco, Stregna, Savogna di Cividale, Lusevera, Taipana, Torreano, Resia and the mountainous areas of the municipalities of Tarcento, Nimis, Attimis, Faedis, Prepotto and Montenars.

The Italian writer Leonardo Sciascia has summarized some of the results of these investigations and these hypotheses in his passionate book La Scomparsa di Majorana ( Einaudi, 1975-English translation: The Moro Affair and The Mystery of Majorana, Carcanet, 1987, ISBN 0-85635-700-6 ).

His pupils included Leonardo da Vinci, Pietro Perugino and Lorenzo di Credi.

As well as Leonardo da Vinci and Lorenzo di Credi these included Domenico Ghirlandaio, Francesco Botticini, and Pietro Perugino.

1479 drawing by Leonardo da Vinci of hanged Pazzi conspirator Bernardo di Bandino Baroncelli

* E. Manni, Asinio Quadrato e l ' arcaismo erodoteo nel III secolo d. C., in: L. Ferrero, ed., Studi di storiografia antica in memoria di Leonardo Ferrero ( Torino, 1971 ), 191-201.

In 2011 he co-starred in the CBBC series Leonardo as Piero di Cosimo de ' Medici.

Italian Renaissance painting exercised a dominant influence on subsequent European painting ( see Western painting ) for centuries afterwards, with artists such as Giotto di Bondone, Masaccio, Piero della Francesca, Domenico Ghirlandaio, Perugino, Michelangelo, Raphael, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, and Titian.

The drawing was purchased from Gaudenzio de ' Pagave by Giuseppe Bossi, who described, discussed and illustrated it in his monograph on Leonardo's The Last Supper, Del Cenacolo di Leonardo da Vinci libri quattro ( 1810 ).

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.

The 15th-century Florentine historian Domenico di Leonardo Buoninsegni also featured in the first two chapters of his Istoria Fiorentina a summary of Villani's Cronica.

" Domenico di Leonardo Buoninsegni's Istoria Fiorentina ," Renaissance Quarterly ( Volume 23, Number 3, 1970 ): 256 – 266.

This is a condensed form of the Italian censo di censo, used by Leonardo of Pisa in his famous book Liber Abaci of 1202.

* 1558: Villa Emo ( for Leonardo Emo ), Fanzolo di Vedelago, Province of Treviso

* Leonardo Sciascia, a cura di Sebastiano Gesù, Giuseppe Maimone Editore, Catania 1992

* V. Fascia, F. Izzo, A. Maori, La memoria di carta: Bibliografia delle opere di Leonardo Sciascia, Edizioni Otto / Novecento, Milano, 1998

* V. Vecellio ( a cura di ), L ' uomo solo: L ' Affaire Moro di Leonardo Sciascia, Edizioni La Vita Felice, Milano, 2002

His full name was " Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ", which means " Leonardo, son of Piero, of Vinci ".

In 1869, Karl Eduard von Liphart, the central figure of the German expatriate art colony in Florence, recognized it as a youthful work by Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, one of the first attributions of a surviving work to the youthful Leonardo.

When in Florence Leonardo and Michelangelo were each given a commission by Gonfaloniere Piero Soderini to decorate a wall in the “ Hall of Five Hundred ”.

The perspective in his paintings has influenced famous painters such as Piero della Francesca, Albrecht Dürer and Leonardo da Vinci, to name a few.

The movie was adapted by Leonardo Benvenuti, Renato Castellani, Piero De Bernardi and Tonino Guerra from the play Filumena Marturano by Eduardo De Filippo.

This led to a closer study of such 15th century artists as Piero della Francesca, Botticelli and Leonardo da Vinci, whose work had an abiding influence on him.

The production was conducted by Piero Bellugi, and an all-star cast featuring Mirella Freni, Rolando Panerai, Fiorenza Cossotto, Irene Companez, Leonardo Monreale, Franco Calabrese, and Luigi Alva in the title role.

Pisanello had many of his works wrongly ascribed to other artists such as Piero della Francesca, Albrecht Dürer and Leonardo da Vinci, to name a few.

The founding members of the Novecento ( Italian: 20th-century ) movement were the critic Margherita Sarfatti and seven artists: Anselmo Bucci, Leonardo Dudreville, Achille Funi, Gian Emilio Malerba, Piero Marussig, Ubaldo Oppi, and Mario Sironi.

Following that, Inter president Massimo Moratti began searching a replacement for Leonardo, then hiring former Genoa boss Gian Piero Gasperini as new head coach and releasing Leonardo from his contract thereafter.

Leonardo, who was illegitimate, was raised by his blood mother initially before being ' adopted ' by the wife of his father Ser Piero.

His main influences were the serene and sometimes unnatural quietist classicism of Piero della Francesca, Leonardo da Vinci, and Ercole de ' Roberti, but his works also display a sometimes disquieting immobile expressiveness comparable only to the last of these three.

* 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.

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.