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.

With adoption of a more scientific approach, Leonardo da Vinci and Bernard Palissy independently reached an accurate representation of the hydrologic cycle.

The principle most likely finds its origins in similar concepts, such as Occam's razor, Leonardo da Vinci's " Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication ", Mies Van Der Rohe's " Less is more ", or Antoine de Saint Exupéry's " It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away ".

Michelangelo already disliked Leonardo, and in Rome came to dislike Raphael even more, attributing conspiracies against him to the younger man.

Only slightly later, a more sophisticated parachute was sketched by the polymath Leonardo da Vinci in his Codex Atlanticus ( fol.

Leonardo, however, did not suggest his idea be used for correcting vision — he was more interested in learning about the mechanisms of accommodation of the eye.

Later Aprilia launched more scooters such as the Leonardo, the SR and the Gulliver.

According to Wölfflin, painters of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries ( Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael or Albrecht Dürer ) are more linear than " painterly " Baroque painters of the seventeenth century ( Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, and Velázquez ) because they primarily use outline to create shape.

They represent him further as having made in Venetian painting an advance analogous to that made in Tuscan painting by Leonardo more than twenty years before ; that is, as having released the art from the last shackles of archaic rigidity and placed it in possession of full freedom and the full mastery of its means.

However, the singer also possessed an extraordinarily extensive low range: " Navigante che non spera " in Leonardo Vinci's opera Il Medo ( 1728 ) takes him into what might well be described as the alien territory of C3, where a tenor would be more " at home ".

Leonardo da Vinci sketched a more complex automaton around the year 1495.

Leonardo Leo ( August 5, 1694 – October 31, 1744 ), more correctly Lionardo Oronzo Salvatore de Leo, was an Italian Baroque composer.

It is likely that Leonardo da Vinci was already familiar with this work before he painted his his own Last Supper in a more dramatic form to contrast with the stillness of these works, so that more emotion would be displayed.

His more important works include his opera Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern ( 1990 – 96, after Hans Christian Andersen, Leonardo da Vinci and Gudrun Ensslin ), the orchestral pieces Schwankungen am Rand ( 1974 – 75, for eight brass, two electric guitars, two pianos, four thunder sheets, and 34 strings ), Accanto ( 1975 – 76, for clarinet, large orchestra and tape ) and NUN ( 1997 – 99, for flute, trombone, male chorus, and large orchestra ), the ensemble works Mouvement (- vor der Erstarrung ) ( 1982 – 84, for three ad hoc players and 14 players ) and "... zwei Gefühle ...", Musik mit Leonardo ( 1992, ( later incorporated in opera Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern ), after Leonardo da Vinci, for two speakers and 22 players ) and three string quartets ( Gran Torso, 1971, revised 1976, 1988 ; Reigen seliger Geister, 1989 ; Grido, 2001 ), as well as other orchestral, ensemble and chamber works and six piano pieces.

Beatrice had good taste, and it is said that under her prompting her husband's patronage of artists became more selective and the likes of Leonardo da Vinci and Donato Bramante were employed at the court.

In the first three live action films, Donatello, like Leonardo, is arguably less mature than he was in the original comics and the 1987 animated series, as he is shown joking around more.

Their closeness probably stems from their passive personalities, which set them apart from the more authoritative Leonardo and confrontational Raphael, and makes them common sparring and video game partners.

These stories also laid the foundations which demonstrated his closeness with Donatello, their laid-back natures separating them from the more contentious Leonardo and Raphael.

While at the orbital outpost, the STS-128 crew rotated Nicole Stott for crewmember Timothy Kopra on Expedition 20, attached the Leonardo MPLM and transferred more than 18, 000 pounds of supplies and equipment to the ISS.

Michelangelo, more even than Raphael or Leonardo, embodies a standard of artistic genius which reveals a radically changed image of human beings and their potential ..."

Lippi responded by saying that Mourinho was equal to Ciro Ferrara and Leonardo at Juventus and Milan, respectively, only that he was more experienced.

Salai executed a number of paintings under the name of Andrea Salai, but although Vasari claims that Leonardo " taught him a great deal about painting ", his work is generally considered to be of less artistic merit than others among Leonardo's pupils, such as Marco d ' Oggione and Boltraffio.

He also perfects his own version of Leonardo's sfumato modelling, to give subtlety to his painting of flesh, and develops the interplay of glances between his groups, which are much less enigmatic than those of Leonardo.

Leonardo chose this gesture rather than a wedding ring to depict Lisa as a virtuous woman and faithful wife. The painting was among the first portraits to depict the sitter before an imaginary landscape and Leonardo was one of the first painters to use aerial perspective.

Owing to the expressive synthesis that Leonardo achieved between sitter and landscape it is arguable whether Mona Lisa should be considered as a traditional portrait, for it represents an ideal rather than a real woman.

Leonardo da Vinci painted The Last Supper on a dry wall rather than on wet plaster, so it is not a true fresco.

Buñuel was born in Calanda, a small town in the province of Teruel, in Aragón, Spain, to Leonardo Buñuel, the cultivated scion of an established Aragonese family, and María Portolés, many years younger than her husband, with wealth and family connections of her own.

A few days afterwards, having succeeded in making a better telescope than the first, he took it to Venice where he communicated the details of his invention to the public and presented the instrument itself to the doge Leonardo Donato, who was sitting in full council.

Mr " Everything Comes From India "-A man who insists that just about everything comes from India or was invented by Indians ( often to the chagrin of his better knowledged son ), including William Shakespeare, Cliff Richard ( who was actually born in India and is of Indian descent ), Leonardo da Vinci, most English words: ( veranda, shampoo, conditioner ), the British Royal Family ( all except Prince Charles, whom he claims to be African, due to the size of his ears ), Superman ( who is apparently Indian as he has two jobs, a bad haircut and, in a reference to Indian railways, can run faster than a train ) and the number zero ( which is a widely attributed discovery in Indian culture ).

Although arguably less skilled than Leonardo, Raphael is the most physically powerful of the turtles displaying a great deal of strength on many occasions.

He was the first to call attention to the importance of Leonardo da Vinci as a scientist, rather than simply as an artist, in the 1797 booklet, Essai sur les ouvrages physico-mathcmatiques de Leonard de Vinci.

Leonardo started extremely well, collecting 30 points from 12 games, with an average of 2. 5 points per game, better than his predecessors Benítez and José Mourinho.

Since the recent cleaning, the National Gallery's curator Luke Syson has stated that the quality which has been revealed indicates that the work is mostly by the hand of Leonardo, and that participation of members of Leonardo's workshop was almost certainly less than previously thought.

Interestingly, after decades in an Omaha vault, the Hahn La Belle was sold at auction by Sotheby's on January 28, 2010 as " by a follower of Leonardo, probably before 1750 "; it brought 1. 5 million dollars, a price three times higher than Sotheby's pre-sale estimate.

Leonardo da Vinci was also invited to France by Francis I, but other than the paintings which he brought with him, he produced little for the French king.

While this leads him to be the most disciplined of the Turtles, it can also be a shortcoming, as Leonardo has been shown to be a relative workaholic on more than one occasion.

Leonardo Sakamoto, the director of the human rights group Reporter Brasil, says he's certain there are still more than 25, 000 slave laborers in Brazil.