| Style | Renaissance |
| Lived | April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519 ( 16th century ) |
| Nationality | Italy |
| Biography |
Leonardo da Vinci Biography |
| Prints |
Leonardo da Vinci prints and posters |
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| Paintings |
Paintings including 'Mona Lisa', 'The Last Supper' and 'The Annunciation'.
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| Quote | "Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is doing something else."
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| Interesting |
Leonardo da Vinci was left-handed.
Leonardo da Vinci was a homosexual and even was almost convicted for this (back then, homosexuality was a crime) in 1476.
The Last Supper, which began to deteriorate in Leonardo's lifetime, suffered further damage when 17th-century monks cut a door through the lower portion, and was nearly destroyed by Allied bombing in World War II.
Leonardo performed autopsies on corpses to improve his knowledge of physiology, and ridiculed lesser artists' depictions of human flesh, saying they looked like "sacks of nuts."
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| Links |
Leonardo da Vinci - A man of both worlds.
Universal Leonardo - An enormous site about Leonardo. Must visit.
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