Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo da Vinci was the supreme example of the Renaissance polymath — painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and musician whose notebooks reveal an intellect of astonishing range and originality. As an artist he produced the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, two of the most recognized paintings in Western art. His thousands of pages of scientific drawings and observations — of human anatomy, fluid dynamics, optics, and flying machines — anticipated modern science and engineering by centuries.