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, …
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The unique 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...
...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
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...
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...