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

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.

However, unlike Alberti and Leonardo, Dürer was most troubled by understanding not just the abstract notions of beauty but also as to how an artist can create beautiful images.

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.

After Cesare, Leonardo was unsuccessful in finding another patron in Italy.

François I of France was able to convince Leonardo to enter his service, and the last three years of da Vinci's life were spent working in France.

It was titled Don Rosa e il Rinascimento Disneyano (" Don Rosa and the Disneyean Renaissance ") and written by famous Disney and Rosa scholars, Alberto Becattini, Leonardo Gori and Francesco Stajano.

The Fibonacci sequence is named after Leonardo of Pisa, who was known as Fibonacci.

Lorenzo was a great patron of the arts, commissioning works by Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and Botticelli.

A clay model of a horse which was to be used as part of the design was completed by Leonardo in 1492 — but the statue was never built.

Supposedly invented by Leonardo da Vinci, the Italian Renaissance man, the wheellock action was an innovation that was not widely adopted due to the high cost of the clockwork mechanism.

He was born in Pavia, Lombardy, the illegitimate child of Fazio Cardano, a mathematically gifted lawyer, who was a friend of Leonardo da Vinci.

She repeatedly requested that Leonardo should paint her but only a drawing was made.

The Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci, oil on panel, 1503 – 19, probably completed while the artist was at the court of Francis I of France | Francis I.

He was called a " modern day Leonardo Da Vinci " by the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.

However, as a scientist Leonardo was more empirical than Alberti, who was a theorist and did not have similar interest in practice.

" And Alberti was to Leonardo Da Vinci as the finisher to the beginner, as the master to the dilettante.

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ( ) ( April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style ) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer.

In the 1480s Leonardo received two very important commissions and commenced another work which was also of ground-breaking importance in terms of composition.

It is thought that Leonardo never made a painting from it, the closest similarity being to The Virgin and Child with St. Anne in the Louvre.

Depictions of the Last Supper in Christian art have been undertaken by artistic masters for centuries, The Last Supper ( Leonardo da Vinci ) | Leonardo da Vinci's late 1490s mural painting in Milan, Italy, being perhaps the best known example.

For example, that Leonardo probably painted his model faithfully since her beauty is not seen as being among the best, " even when measured by late quattrocento ( 15th century ) or even twenty-first century standards.

However, in the finals Inter lost the chance at a fourth title after being defeated by Flamengo, containing famous players as Zico, Bebeto, Jorginho, Leandro, Edinho, Leonardo, Andrade, Zinho and Renato Gaúcho ( who was elected the best player in the tournament ).

The 60-second commercial shows a sad Robert Mugabe dining alone at Christmas in a large mansion while he reminisces about " happier times " with former dictators, such as playing water tag with Muammar Gaddafi, making snow angels in the sand with Saddam Hussein, singing Karaoke with Mao Zedong, pushing P. W. Botha on a swing set, and riding a tank with Idi Amin in a similar fashion to Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet embracing each other from the movie Titanic while the music from " Those Were the Days " is being played.

Despite being officially opened in 1961, Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport had actually been in use since August 20, 1960.

The castle is home to part of the Buccleuch art collection which includes Rembrandt ’ s ' An Old Woman Reading ', and Leonardo Da Vinci's Madonna of the Yarnwinder which was stolen in 2003 and returned in 2007 after being found in Glasgow and many other paintings, tapestries and objects of art.

In the summer of 2012, with his career having cooled and few acting roles being offered, Jason took a job voicing a Leonardo in the latest version of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on Nickelodeon.

* Existential Technology, Leonardo 36 ( 1 ), 2003, pp19 – 26, explores the fundamental philosophical question of inverse bureaucracy, i. e. " Can humans being clerks make clerks be human?

Despite Leonardo being the official leader of the team given the sci fi nature of the series it is Donatello who comes up with most of the plans and solutions to the turtles predicaments.

Raph often gets into fights with Leonardo and Michelangelo, being jealous of Leo's role as the leader and easily annoyed by Mikey's immature personality.

He often argues with Leonardo and Michelangelo, although he is depicted as being very close with both at times.

In the 2003 animated series, when Michelangelo is challenged to a fight in the episode ' Grudge Match ', Leonardo takes up the responsibility of being Michelangelo's trainer.

Although a well-trained ninja, Michelangelo is primarily a social being and lacks the discipline of Leonardo, the relentless ferocity of Raphael, and the quick mind of Donatello.

It is interesting to note that Michelangelo is the only Turtle who did not end up disfigured in some way in this series ; Leonardo lost his left hand and had it replaced by a steel cap with a retractable blade, Raphael was facially disfigured after being shot in the face, and Donatello was transformed into a cyborg after being shot and thrown out of a helicopter.

Dextrocardia ( the heart being located on the right side of the thorax ) was first seen and drawn by Leonardo da Vinci in 1452 – 1519, and then recognised by Marco Aurelio Severino in 1643.

Central to the ceiling decoration are nine scenes from the Book of Genesis of which the Creation of Adam is the best known, having an iconic standing equalled only by Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, the hands of God and Adam being reproduced in countless imitations.

* A film is currently in development hell, but the film is being produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and is expected to be released either 2013 or 2014.

* The Departed ( 2006 ), starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg was shot in South Boston and was loosely based on the life of famed Irish mob leader James " Whitey " Bulger and the events leading up to his hiatus and being an informant for the FBI.

In July 2011 Leonardo was then introduced as new director of football of Paris Saint-Germain, being responsible for the club's major transfer market decisions.

Leonardo, despite being married, is also still madly in love with the bride.

* Leonardo's Last Supper ( 1969 ) portrayed Leonardo da Vinci being prematurely declared dead, with his subsequent " resurrection " in a filthy charnel-house.

Taneyev used a quotation from Leonardo da Vinci as its inscription: " No branch of study can claim to be considered a true science unless it is capable of being demonstrated mathematically.