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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ( pronunciation (help·info), April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian polymath, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the... Read enhanced Wikipedia article
Date of Birth:
1452
Date of Death:
1519
Place of Birth: Anchiano
Nationality:
Italy
Profession:
Architect, Inventor, Artist (9 hidden)

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portrait, Last Supper, Mona Lisa, Battle, Lady, La Gioconda, supper, walls, style, delle, copies, Benci, Bacchus, ceiling, Madonna Benois and Renaissance.

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Lady with an Ermine The small portrait generally called The Lady with the Ermine was painted in oils on wooden panel by Leonardo da Vinci.

Speculation about Mona Lisa Mona Lisa, or La Gioconda (La Joconde) is a 16th-century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo Da Vinci.

1490s in art 1490: Leonardo da Vinci paints the portrait Lady with an Ermine

Ever After Danielle and Henry are presumed to live happily ever after; Leonardo da Vinci paints Danielle's portrait.

1400-1500 in fashion This famous portrait was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci c.1489.

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Sacred art It was during this time that Michelangelo Buonarroti painted the Sistine Chapel and carved the famous Pietà, Gianlorenzo Bernini created the massive columns in St. Peter's Basilica, and Leonardo da Vinci painted the Last Supper.

1490s in art 1498: Leonardo da Vinci paints The Last Supper (Santa Maria delle Grazie (Milan))

The Last Supper (Leonardo) Leonardo da Vinci painted The Last Supper on a dry wall rather than on wet plaster, so it is not a true fresco.

Last Supper In the novel The Da Vinci Code, Leonardo da Vinci's painting of the Last Supper was a key element leading to the Holy Grail, presented as protected by a society called the Priory of Sion, of which Leonardo was a member.

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16th century 1503: Leonardo da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa and completes it three or four years later.

The Seven Stars Inn To put it in its historical context, the Seven Stars was built 13 years after Chaucer published the Canterbury Tales, 15 years before the English and Welsh longbow archers put paid to the heavy cavalry of the French at the Battle of Agincourt, and a hundred years before Leonardo da Vinci painted the Mona Lisa.

1503 in art Leonardo Da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa

Speculation about Mona Lisa Mona Lisa, or La Gioconda (La Joconde) is a 16th-century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo Da Vinci.

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Battle of Anghiari The Battle of Anghiari, a painting of the battle by the Italian Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci

1505 in art Leonardo da Vinci paints The Battle of Anghiari

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Lady with an Ermine The small portrait generally called The Lady with the Ermine was painted in oils on wooden panel by Leonardo da Vinci.

1490s in art 1490: Leonardo da Vinci paints the portrait Lady with an Ermine

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Speculation about Mona Lisa Mona Lisa, or La Gioconda (La Joconde) is a 16th-century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel by Leonardo Da Vinci.

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Thank God It's Doomsday The scene at the end of the episode, where Homer and his bar pals are sat drinking, resembles the Last Supper painting by Leonardo Da Vinci, with Homer posing as Jesus.

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1504 The Signoria of Florence commissions both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to paint the walls of the Grand Council Chamber in the Palazzo Vecchio.

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1490s in art The Renaissance is in full swing during the 1490s, and Leonardo da Vinci is painting in realistic, chiaroscuro style.

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1490s in art 1498: Leonardo da Vinci paints The Last Supper (Santa Maria delle Grazie (Milan))

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List of Doctor Who villains One such scheme involved his 1505 persona, Captain Tancredi, persuading Leonardo da Vinci to paint six copies of the Mona Lisa, so that in 1979 Scarlioni could steal the original from the Louvre and sell all seven copies on the black market.

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Ginevra King (She, as with her mother and grandmother, was named after Leonardo da Vinci's painting Ginevra de' Benci.)

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1515 in art Leonardo da Vinci painted a little-known Bacchus.

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Sala Delle Asse The room's vaulted ceiling was originally painted by Leonardo Da Vinci in 1498.

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Leon Benois He gave his name to Leonardo da Vinci's painting Madonna Benois which he inherited from his father-in-law and presented to the Hermitage Museum.

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List of eponyms (L-Z) Leonardo da Vinci, Renaissance painter — Leonardo, one of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic characters

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automaton, Valle Camonica, Horse, aircraft, staircase, proto-tank, navigli, Ornithopter, a number, machine, helicopter, Horn Bridge, name and net.

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History of robots Leonardo Da Vinci designed a humanoid automaton in knight's armor (see Leonardo's robot) in 1495 to entertain, but it is not known if the design was ever built.

Leonardo's robot Leonardo's robot refers to a humanoid automaton designed by Leonardo da Vinci around the year 1495.

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Angolo Terme In 1509 Angolo (called Anghol) appears in the map of the Valle Camonica designed by Leonardo da Vinci and stored at Windsor (Uk).

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History of sculpture Michelangelo's great rival Leonardo Da Vinci designed an equine sculpture "The Horse" for Milan-but only succeeded in a 24-foot (7.3 m) clay model which was destroyed by French archers.

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Fixed-wing aircraft Leonardo da Vinci researched the wing design of birds and designed a man-powered aircraft in his Codex on the Flight of Birds (1502).

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Château de Chambord There are suggestions that Leonardo da Vinci may have designed the staircase, but this has not been confirmed.

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The Land Ironclads Although Leonardo da Vinci had designed a proto-tank, Wells's chief inspiration seems to have been Ironclad warships, which also feature significantly in one incident from The War of the Worlds.

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Po (river) It is connected to Milan through a net of channels called navigli, which Leonardo da Vinci helped design.

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Timeline of aviation - pre-18th century Leonardo da Vinci designs an ornithopter with control surfaces.

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One Good Turn (book) Leonardo da Vinci was there at the start, designing a number of screw-cutting machines with interchangeable gears.

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Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport The airport is named after Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci, who first designed a proto helicopter and a flying machine with wings.

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Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport The airport is named after Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci, who first designed a proto helicopter and a flying machine with wings.

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Vebjørn Sand Da Vinci Project Golden Horn Bridge designed by Leonardo da Vinci in 1502

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Artogne In 1508 is indicated by the name of the map of Artogne Valle Camonica designed by Leonardo da Vinci, which is kept at the Royal Library of Windsor, in Great Britain.

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Po (river) It is connected to Milan through a net of channels called navigli, which Leonardo da Vinci helped design.

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machine, boat, automata, soldier, press, Renaissance, database, flowers and Traghetto di Leonardo.

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Hudson Hawk The company, headquartered in the Esposizione Universale Roma (E.U.R.) in Rome, is seeking to take over the world by reconstructing "La Macchina dell'Oro", a machine purportedly invented by Leonardo da Vinci (Stefano Molinari) which converts lead into gold.

Milled coinage The earliest machine known for producing coins is the screw press, invented by Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th century, powered by a water mill.

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Imbersago The Traghetto di Leonardo is a boat invented by Leonardo da Vinci

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Robotic art Leonardo da Vinci invented several theatrical automata including a lion which walked onstage and delivered flowers from its breast, and a soldier.

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Robotic art Leonardo da Vinci invented several theatrical automata including a lion which walked onstage and delivered flowers from its breast, and a soldier.

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Milled coinage The earliest machine known for producing coins is the screw press, invented by Leonardo da Vinci in the 15th century, powered by a water mill.

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Al-Jazari According to Encyclopædia Britannica, the Italian Renaissance inventor Leonardo da Vinci may have been influenced by the classic automata of Al-Jazari.

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Red Gate Software The company is named after Via Porta Rossa (Red Gate Street) in Florence, Italy, close to where Leonardo da Vinci invented the database in 1512.

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Robotic art Leonardo da Vinci invented several theatrical automata including a lion which walked onstage and delivered flowers from its breast, and a soldier.

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Imbersago The Traghetto di Leonardo is a boat invented by Leonardo da Vinci

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    Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention.
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    Category:Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci Categories named after artists
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    Leonardo da Vinci (submarine)

    Leonardo da Vinci was a Marconi-class submarine built for and operated by Italy'sRegia Marina during World War II. Construction
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    Leonardo da Vinci (battleship)

    The Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Conte di Cavour class battleship of the Regia Marina. It was 170 metres long (small for a battleship).
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    Leonardo da Vinci (European Union programme)

    In the European Union, the Leonardo da Vinci programme is a programme to encourage learners and trainees in vocational education and training (VET) to move between European countries in the course of their studies.
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    Category:Leonardo da Vinci paintings

    Paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. Renaissance paintings
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    The Life of Leonardo da Vinci

    The Life of Leonardo da Vinci is a 1971 Italian television miniseries (original title is La vita di Leonardo Da Vinci) dramatizing the life of the Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci. The miniseries was directed by Renato Castellani, and produced by RAI (the Italian national television) and distributed in the U.S. from CBS.
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    Category:Works by Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci
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    Da Vinci (disambiguation)

    Da Vinci may refer to: Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Italian Renaissance polymath.
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    Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci

    Leonardo da Vinci was a Marconi-class submarine built for and operated by Italy'sRegia Marina during World War II. ... Leonardo da Vinci carried out 11 war patrols, sinking 13 ships of 90,415 GRT .

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