Why is Leonardo da Vinci so significant?

Question

Don't just tell me because of his art, because he did a lot more than this. What was his overall significance? Think broad.

Answer 1

Many of his ideas, thoughts, philosophies, inventions, etc. were centuries ahead of his time. His inventions spanned everything from changing warfare to study of flight. He even wrote many of his notes in mirror reflection type coding, he made advancements in math, astronomy, and anatomy - and that was all in addition to his artistic abilities.

Answer 2

Oh..I don't know.....paints the most famous painting in the world, designs aircraft ( including the helicopter ) over 400 years before their time, designs buildings that could scarcely be built with the methods and materials available in his time. Defies most of the 'science' of his time, questions just about every accepted tenet, and challenges quite a few.

I'd say that adds up to fairly extraordinary significance...don't you ? ;-)

The bottom line of my answer is in your question, you said "Think broad", very good, that is exactly what Leonardo was, he encompassed a spectrum of understanding rarely reached by any human in any age. I call this type of phenomenal entity a 'Rip in the Fabric'.

Answer 3

Leonardo da vinci is so significant because of his charactaristically anachronistic thought.

his thought process was so radically different than the norm of the time that he could practically be classified as a school of thought.

His art is famous not only because of its splendicity, but also because of the thoughts behind it.
Da Vinci was a pioneer of the school of modern thought, and as so is treated as such

Answer 4

Well, this broad thinks that he was significant because, among Renaissance men, he was the tops. Writer, thinker, artist, inventor, he dd it all.

Answer 5

maximum folk may say the Mona Lisa because that's the international's maximum popular portray, or his techniques like the helicopter lengthy earlier such technologies replaced into available, yet i imagine his maximum major accomplishment replaced into his potential to get funding for his resourceful initiatives like portray The very last Supper by ability of providing his technical know-how as a civil engineer and defense force architect to royals and the pope. by ability of crafting stunning bridges and monuments to carry glory to the royals who had the money, he had the liberty to create acceptable artwork for himself (and ultimately for us).

Answer 6

Don't forget he's also known as the father of aviation

Answer 7

great painter

Answer 8

he was a genius????