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.

Despite the recent awareness and admiration of Leonardo as a scientist and inventor, for the better part of four hundred years his fame rested on his achievements as a painter and on a handful of works, either authenticated or attributed to him that have been regarded as among the masterpieces.

Aspects of his work on the studies of anatomy, light and the landscape were assembled for publication by his pupil Francesco Melzi and eventually published as Treatise on Painting by Leonardo da Vinci in France and Italy in 1651 and Germany in 1724, with engravings based upon drawings by the Classical painter Nicholas Poussin.

* Leonardo da Vinci, ( 1452 – 1519 ), Italian polymath, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer.

* Leonardo Coccorante, Italian painter

* May 2 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor and painter ( b. 1452 )

Leonardo, a famous painter and inventor, arrived with three of his paintings, namely the Mona Lisa, Sainte Anne, and Saint Jean Baptiste.

He made guest appearances on Blackadder as the painter Leonardo Acropolis and Shelley as pop star Hobo with Hywel Bennett as James Shelley.

Corot learned little from the Renaissance masters ( though later he cited Leonardo da Vinci as his favorite painter ) and spent most of his time around Rome and in the Italian countryside.

* May 2 – Leonardo da Vinci, Italian architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, scientist, mathematician, musician and painter ( born 1452 )

The Leonardo essay contains Pater's celebrated reverie on the Mona Lisa (" probably still the most famous piece of writing about any picture in the world "); the Botticelli essay was the first in English on this painter, contributing to the revival of interest in this artist.

Standing alongside Leonardo and Michelangelo as the third great painter of the High Renaissance was the younger Raphael, who in a short life span painted a great number of lifelike and engaging portraits, including those of Pope Julius II and his successor Pope Leo X, and numerous portrayals of the Madonna and Christ Child, including the Sistine Madonna.

Leonardo Fea ( 1852, Turin, Piedmont-1903 ) was an Italian explorer, zoologist, painter and naturalist.

* Leonardo da Vinci ( Italian, 1452 – 1519 ) Acclaimed great Renaissance oil painter / draughtsman

* Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452 – 1519 ), Italian Renaissance scientist, inventor, engineer, sculptor, and painter

* Leonardo Acropolis, a painter on the BBC sitcom Blackadder

* Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452 – 1519 ) – Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, writer.

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This is already apparent in his breakthrough piece, The Deluge ( 1957 – 58 ), which is inspired by Eisenstein's notes for a film based on a writing by Leonardo da Vinci ; in other words Goehr writes music about a director's notes for a film based on the writings of a painter!

Although perhaps sincere in his motive, Vincenzo may not have known that Leonardo da Vinci took this painting as a gift for Francis I when he moved to France to become a painter in his court during the 16th century, 250 years before Napoleon's birth.

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.

Leonardo was an architect, a poet, a painter, an hydraulic engineer and a distinguished mathematician.

Francesco Melzi ( c. 1491 – 1570 ) was an Italian painter, favorite assistant and pupil of Leonardo da Vinci.

As a painter, Melzi worked closely with and for Leonardo.