Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, born 15 April 1452 and died 2 May 1519, was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance [1][10]. Active across an exceptional range of disciplines, he worked as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect [1], with his fields encompassing Renaissance architecture, scenography, engineering, physiology, and painting [2]. Over the course of his career he worked in Florence, Milan, Venice, Mantua, Rome, and Amboise [12].

Although his reputation was first established through his achievements as a painter [1], Leonardo's practice extended well beyond the canvas. His preferred genres included portraiture, religious painting, and religious art [11]. He is equally celebrated for his extensive notebooks, which contain drawings and written observations on anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, and palaeontology, among other subjects [1].

Together, his paintings and notebooks offer an unusually broad picture of one creative mind at work during the High Renaissance [1]. The range of locations in which he was active suggests a career shaped by the patronage networks and intellectual currents of late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century Italy and France [12].

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