Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was a Renaissance polymath, excelling in art, science, engineering, anatomy, and writing. Though most famous for masterpieces like "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper," he also authored numerous notebooks filled with ideas, sketches, and reflections on various subjects. His writings, often written in mirror script, covered topics from anatomy to engineering, and were later compiled into works like "Codex Atlanticus" and "Codex Leicester." Leonardo's interdisciplinary genius greatly influenced both his contemporaries and future generations, blending creativity and scientific inquiry in groundbreaking ways.

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The notes on Sculpture. Compared with the mass of manuscript treating of Painting, a very small number of passages bearing on the practice and methods of Sculpture are to be found scattered through the note books; these are here given at the beginning of this section (Nos. 706-709). There is less cause for surprise at finding that the equestrian statue of Francesco Sforza is only incidentally spoken... more...

A singular fatality has ruled the destiny of nearly all the most famous of Leonardo da Vinci's works. Two of the three most important were never completed, obstacles having arisen during his life-time, which obliged him to leave them unfinished; namely the Sforza Monument and the Wall-painting of the Battle of Anghiari, while the third—the picture of the Last Supper at Milan—has suffered... more...