2006-09-01 06:11:41 · 6 answers · asked by sketter101 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Visual Arts ➔ Painting
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was a talented Italian Renaissance Roman Catholic[1] polymath: architect, anatomist, sculptor, engineer, inventor, geometer, scientist, 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.
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 the helicopter, a tank, the use of concentrated solar power, the 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.
Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense; "da Vinci" simply means "from Vinci". His full birth name was "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci", meaning "Leonardo, son of (Mes)ser Piero from Vinci."
2006-09-01 06:38:19 · answer #1 · answered by GoodGuy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i can understand you don't know the period (1400's) but no to know who is leonardo, i'm guessing you are talking about Leonardo Da Vinci. hints... Last Supper.....Mona Lisa...Virgin of the Rocks.... Vitruvian Man.......The Baptism of Christ ...............and he had early disigns of missels, robots, planes, helicopters, more..........
so don't get me started.
p.s. read "the da vinci code".
2006-09-01 16:24:39 · answer #2 · answered by elclone 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Yahoo Search for Leonardo will give you massive amounts of information about the artist. Please start there.
2006-09-01 13:14:59 · answer #3 · answered by kearneyconsulting 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Is this a homework assignment? At least look it up on Wikipedia!!!
2006-09-01 13:14:56 · answer #4 · answered by nora22000 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
*sniff sniff*- homework?
If you don't know you should research him! google him for god's sake!
but to be nice, he worked in many fields and was a great artist and inventor.
2006-09-01 13:15:52 · answer #5 · answered by kermit 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suggest you do your own homework!
2006-09-01 20:04:34 · answer #6 · answered by K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋