Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci
Italian painter, sculptor, architect, author, engineer, inventor, lutanist, mathematician & scientist

Born in: Vinci (Florentine province, Tuscany, Italy)
Died in: Amboise (Indre-et-Loire, France)

Also known as:

Leonard de Vinci, Leonardo da Vinci

Nationality:

Italian

Rival of:

Michelangelo (1475-1564)

Student of:

Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488)

Teacher of:

Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (1466-1516), Andrea Solario (1460-1524)

Uncle of:

Pierino da Vinci (1531-1554)

 

Biographical Information

Leonardo da Vinci was a Florentine artist, one of the great masters of the High Renaissance, who was also celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist. His profound love of knowledge and research was the keynote of both his artistic and scientific endeavors. His innovations in the field of painting influenced the course of Italian art for more than a century after his death, and his scientific studies particularly in the fields of anatomy, optics, and hydraulics anticipated many of the developments of modern science.