Leonard+Da+Vinci

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**Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci** (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an [|Italian] [|polymath] : [|painter], [|sculptor] , [|architect] , [|musician] , [|scientist] , [|mathematician] , [|engineer] ,[|inventor] , [|anatomist] , [|geologist] , [|cartographer] , [|botanist] and [|writer]. Leonardo has often been described as the [|archetype] of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|greatest][|painters] of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.According to art historian <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; color: #0645ad; text-decoration: none;">[|Helen Gardner], the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote".Marco Rosci points out, however, that while there is much speculation about Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time.

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