Biography:A renaissance polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer and inventor, Da Vinci is chiefly remembered as one of the greatest painters of all time.
His inventions and designs included flying machines, a tank, concentrated solar power, an adding machine, the double hull and a theory of plate tectonics.
Born:April 15, 1452 Birthplace:Vinci, Florence, Italy Star Sign:Aries
1496-01-03 Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tests a flying machine
1999-05-28 In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display
2017-11-15 Leonardo da Vinci's painting "Salvator Mundi" sells for $450.3 million at auction in New York, world record price for any artwork
2019-05-02 Second-only sketch known of Leonardo da Vinci from Queen Elizabeth's collection revealed on the 500th anniversary of the artist's death
2021-07-04 Researchers reveal there are 14 living descendants of Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci
2021-07-08 A tiny Leonardo da Vinci sketch "Head of a Bear", the size of a post-it sells for £8.9 million ($12.2 m) at auction in London
Quotes by Leonardo da Vinci
"Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity." - Nature
"There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see." - People
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