Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer. The illegitimate son of a notary, Messer Piero, and a peasant girl, Caterina, Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense, "da Vinci" simply meaning "of Vinci": his full birth name was "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci", meaning "Leonardo, …
| Born: | April 15, 1452 |
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| Died: | May 2, 1519 |
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The definitive Wikipedia entry for Leonardo da Vinci. Wikipedia is the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci |
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fame that Leonardo enjoyed in his lifetime and that, filtered and
purified by historical criticism, has remained undimmed to the
present day is based on the equally unique universality of his
spirit. www.all-art.org/early_renaissance/leonardo_da_vinci001bio... |
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An ever-growing collection of drawings by Leonardo da Vinci thumbnailed and available for downloading. www.drawingsofleonardo.org |
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...ourselves in person, Messer Leonardo da Vinci painter to the King, at present staying at the place known as Cloux near Amboise, duly considering the certainty of death and the uncertainty of ... www.leonardo-history.com/life.htm?Section=S6 |
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There are many drawings by his hand, and among them some heads of women, with the hair arranged in that manner that
Leonardo da Vinci always imitated. www.mnstate.edu/gracyk/courses/web%20publishing/Vasari_da... |
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Exhibition themes www.vam.ac.uk/collections/periods_styles/medieval/leonard... |
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Detail from Leonardo da Vinci notebook, c. 1510. arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1860869,00.html |
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A singular fatality has ruled the destiny of nearly all the most
famous of Leonardo da Vinci's works. publicliterature.org/books/notebooks_of_leonardo_da_vinci... |
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