s0240l-LEONARDO dA VINCI also Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci born 1451-5/20/1506 in Vinci, Italy, Also slideshows of paintings, to left in Da Vinci
possibly self portrait of da Vinci 1512-15
The Last Supper 1498,Convent of Sta. Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy.
Mona Lisa or La Gioconda 1503-1505/1507,Louvre, Paris, France
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The archetype of the Renaissance and was way ahead of his time, was a Tuscan or Italian polymath, a genius and among the greatest as architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, scientist, botanist, mathematician, philosopher, musician, painter, poet, the list is near endless and writer of all these professions and many more, Leonardo invented or drafted the tank, helicopter, hang glider, solar power, calculator, plate tectonics, machine gun, and continuously variable transmission which is still used, to name a few, many or even most drafted inventions were never actually constructed, but many have been since constructed for posterity, advanced knowledge at that time of anatomy, astronomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics or study of water, he was a vegetarian, was left handed, he loved animals, he was accused of sodomy and had several relationships with young men whom he preferred and said, "Know that male love is exclusively the product of virtue which, joining men together with the diverse affections of friendship, makes it so that from a tender age they would enter into the manly one as more stalwart friends". Was the illegitimate son of a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant girl, Caterina, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter, Verrocchio