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( fr ) Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) was an Italian polymath: architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, mathematician, musician, and painter. He has been described as the archetype of the 'Renaissance man', a man infinitely curious and equally inventive. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and a universal genius. Leonardo is famous for his realistic paintings, such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, as well as for influential drawings such as the Vitruvian Man. He conceived of ideas vastly ahead of his own time, notably conceptually inventing a helicopter, a tank, the use of concentrated solar power, a calculator, a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics, the double hull, and many others. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or were feasible during his lifetime; modern scientific approaches to metallurgy and engineering were only in their infancy during the Renaissance. In addition, he greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, astronomy, civil engineering, optics, and the study of water (hydrodynamics). Of his works, only a few paintings survive, together with his notebooks (scattered among various collections) containing drawings, scientific diagrams and notes.

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artcore Timeless and pluridisciplinary Genius ,Certainly one of my models.
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Signora Da Vinci by Robin Maxwell Little is known about the mother of Leonardo Da Vinci, other than the fact that she was named Caterina and was not married to his father.  It would seem that she must have been a special woman to have raised such a remarkable child, but historical records tell us little [...] [Read more]
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The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
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Da Vinci Machines
Genre Art exhibitionLocation Cultural ForecourtAddress The Parklands, South BankDate June 6 to September 6Tickets $20/$15More information www.davincimuseum.com.au Running over three months at South Bank, comes an exhibition that features creations and concepts devised more than 500 years ago by brilliant scientist, inventor and artist Leonardo Da Vinci. On loan from the Museum of Leonardo Da Vinci in Florence, this remarkable exhibition features over 60 reproductions of Da Vinci?s famous machin [Read more]
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The Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum
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