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Related: Culture Forums, Support Forums500 years ago yesterday, Leonardo da Vinci died.
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Hat tip, someone, but I can't remember who.
Leonardo da Vinci
Portrait by Francesco Melzi
Born Lionardo di ser Piero da Vinci, 15 April 1452, Vinci, Republic of Florence (present-day Italy)
Died 2 May 1519 (aged 67), Amboise, Kingdom of France
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italian: [leoˈnardo di ˌsɛr ˈpjɛːro da (v)ˈvintʃi]; 15 April 1452 2 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and he is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter, and tank, he epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal.
Portrait by Francesco Melzi
Born Lionardo di ser Piero da Vinci, 15 April 1452, Vinci, Republic of Florence (present-day Italy)
Died 2 May 1519 (aged 67), Amboise, Kingdom of France
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italian: [leoˈnardo di ˌsɛr ˈpjɛːro da (v)ˈvintʃi]; 15 April 1452 2 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and he is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter, and tank, he epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal.
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500 years ago yesterday, Leonardo da Vinci died. (Original Post)
mahatmakanejeeves
May 2019
OP
A DAY IN THE LIFE
(88 posts)1. I've been to his tomb in France
brooklynite
(94,293 posts)2. Big deal, he hasn't had a new idea in years...
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)3. And inventor of the Shroud of Turin
I regard it as his masterpiece. Hilarious that it's his face on the shroud and they still hold it in a locked room in the Vatican.