Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italian pronunciation: [leoˈnardo da
vˈvintʃi] About this sound pronunciation (help·info); April 15, 1452 --
May 2, 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter,
sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor,
anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius,
perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance
humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of
the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly
inventive imagination".
He is widely considered to be one of the
greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented
person ever to have lived. According to art historian Helen Gardner,
the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his
mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious
and remote". Marco Rosci states that while there is much speculation
about Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather
than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual
for his time.
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