Leonardo Da Vinci: A Popular Italian Renaissance Pololymath

Leonardo Da Vinci was born April 15 1452, to Caterina Da Vinci and Piero Frusino di Antonio Da Vinci. He was a popular Italian Renaissance polymath. A polymath is someone that has mastered several different subject areas. His interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, and literature; just to name a few. He has been variously called father of palaeontology, which is the study of life that once existed. He is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time, and was often credited with the invention of the parachute, helicopter and the tank.

Leonardo da Vinci was an artist during the Renaissance period. The Renaissance followed the Middle Ages. The Renaissance began in

In the the 1490’s, da Vinci wrote in four notebooks, the topics were painting, architecture, mechanics, and human anatomy. He wrote thousands of pages in his notebooks that also included illustrations. His notebooks were very informative, one included plans for a 65-foot mechanical bat, or a flying machine. Others included the human anatomy, for example, he had written his studies of human skeleton, muscles, brain, digestive and reproductive systems. Since da Vinci did not publish his work on human anatomy, he did not influence the scientific community. In 1516, Leonardo da Vinci left Italy, he moved to France to become “Premier Painter and Engineer and Architect to the King” that was offered to him by Francis I. Da Vinci was allowed to work at his own pace while living in a country manor house, Château of Cloux. In 1519, Leonardo da Vinci died at Château of Cloux, he was 67 years old. Da Vinci was buried near the palace church of Saint-Florentin. In the 1800’s the church was destroyed during the French Revolution. Because of the destruction, Leonardo da Vinci’s gravesite could not be identified since all the tombstones were destroyed. (History.com Staff,