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Who Was Leonardo da Vinci? The Life, Mind, and Legacy of the Ultimate Renaissance Man

"Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who excelled as a painter, draftsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. Widely considered one of the greatest painters in human history and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived, he defined the ideal of the "Renaissance Man" through his insatiable curiosity and brilliant empirical observations. The Early Life and Formative Years of a Genius Born out of wedlock on April 15/16, 1452, in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, Leonardo was the son of a wealthy Florentine notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman named Caterina. Gr..."

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