Leonardo da Vinci
Renaissance polymath
Italian painter, engineer, anatomist (1452-1519).
Left-handed; wrote his private notebooks in mirror script. Painted the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, but considered painting a side project to dissecting cadavers and sketching helicopters, parachutes and tanks centuries before they were possible. Finished surprisingly few projects because he got bored.
Famous for
- Mona Lisa + The Last Supper
- Vitruvian Man
- Anatomical drawings + flying machine sketches
- Codex Atlanticus notebooks
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