Leonardo da Vinci - 2-Minute-Summary – Who Is Leonardo da Vinci?

Leonardo Da Vinci 
 
• Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance man.
He was Born April 15, 1452 and Died May 2, 1519
 
• He is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time.  
 
• Born out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci in the region of Florence.
 
• He received an informal education in Latin, geometry and mathematics
 
• Leonardo was, and is, renowned primarily as a painter. Among his works, the Mona Lisa is the most famous and most parodied portrait and The Last Supper the most reproduced religious painting of all time. In the present era the Mona Lisa it is arguably the most famous painting in the world. Its fame rests, in particular, on the elusive smile on the woman's face, The shadowy quality for which the work is renowned came to be called "sfumato", or Leonardo's smoke
 
 
• Leonardo is also revered for his technological ingenuity, relatively few of his designs were constructed or even feasible during his lifetime, as the modern scientific approaches to metallurgy and engineering were only in their infancy during the Renaissance
 
• A number of Leonardo's most practical inventions such as the Flying machine, The helicopter (The aerial screw) and even the parachute, are nowadays displayed as working models at the Museum of Vinci
 
• During his lifetime, Leonardo was valued as an engineer, he was fascinated by the phenomenon of flight. 
 
• He also made substantial discoveries in anatomy, civil engineering, geology, optics, and hydrodynamics.
 
• Among the qualities that make Leonardo's work unique are his innovative techniques for laying on the paint; his detailed knowledge of anatomy, light, botany and geology; his interest in physiognomy and the way humans register emotion in expression and gesture; his innovative use of the human form in figurative composition; and his use of subtle gradation of tone. 
 
 
• Some 20 years after Leonardo's death, king Francis of France was reported by the goldsmith and sculptor Benvenuto Cellini as saying: "There had never been another man born in the world who knew as much as Leonardo, not so much about painting, sculpture and architecture, as that he was a very great philosopher."
 
• Leonardo kept his private life secret. 
 
 
• Interest in Leonardo and his work has never diminished. Crowds still queue to see his best-known artworks and writers continue to hail him as a genius.• 
A painting by Leonardo, Salvator Mundi, sold for a world record $450.3 million at a Christie's auction in New York, on November 15, 2017. The highest price ever paid for a work of art