Today Leonard da Vinci is best known for painting the Mona Lisa, which has become a pop icon. He, however, was not just a painter, but a Renaissance man of many talents and excelled as an inventor, military engineer, sculptor, illustrator, architect, and
Martin Kausal's biographical site traces Leonardo's life from his 1452 birth in a Anchiano farmhouse, just outside the town of Vinci, to his death at age sixty-seven.
The Leonardo da Vinci National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan has a great companion website to its massive 15000 piece collection.
The original Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci was not just a painter, but also an inventor, military engineer, sculptor, illustrator, architect, and scientist. His talents were extraordinary, yet he left many paintings unfinished, and never published hi
From the Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, comes a collection of models created from Leonardo's sketches.
Located in the medieval Castello Guidi, the Leonardo Museum dominates the small city of Vinci, Italy, where Leonardo was born.