quarta-feira, 15 de abril de 2015

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Leonardo da Vinci!


Leonardo da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Leonardo da Vinci!
Leonardo da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was born the son of a legal specialist and a peasant girl and during his life was an Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person to have ever lived. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination". It would be fair to say that da Vinci helped spur the Renaissance forward by competing with stimulating minds such as Raphael and Michelangelo. Within Leonardo's own lifetime his fame was such that the King of France carried him away like a trophy. Interest in Leonardo has never diminished.