Leonardo da Vinci
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New York Post | 4 days ago
Leonardo comes to life
...12:24 AM, November 21, 2009 Posted: 12:24 AM, November 21, 2009 Mechanical lions and soldiers and bats - oh my! Leonardo da Vinci dreamed up plans for all that and more, but few ever made it out of his sketchbooks. Until now.
In this article: Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, PlayStation, Bill Gates, and France
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AP Online | 4 days ago
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...overturns in Va., killing 1 Jennifer Lopez, Adam Lambert ready for AMA stage '2012' a home run with patriotic fans in China Leonardo da Vinci exhibit opens in Times Square Top SKorean model found hanged in Paris apartment Man accused...
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Yahoo! News | 5 days ago
Leonardo da Vinci exhibit opens in Times Square (AP)
Leonardo da Vinci exhibit opens in Times Square NEW YORK - An interactive exhibit featuring life-size models of Leonardo da Vinci's 500-year-old inventions and machines is opening in New York City's Times Square. Although best known for...
In this article: New York City and Mona Lisa
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Leonardo da Vinci exhibit opens in Times Square
NEW YORK (AP) ??? An interactive exhibit featuring life-size models of Leonardo da Vinci's 500-year-old inventions and machines is opening in New York City's Times Square. Although best known for painting the masterpiece "Mona Lisa," da...
In this article: New York City and Mona Lisa
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Wired: Underwire | 5 days ago
Life-Size Models Take You Inside Leonardo da Vinci's Workshop
...interesting inventions - all re-created using materials and techniques that would have existed in the 15th and 16th centuries. Leonardo da Vinci's Workshop, making its North American debut, will be on display at Discovery Times Square...
In this article: New York and The Last Supper
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Independent.co.uk - Gadgets & Tech | November 13, 2009
Academics hope history in video games spurs interest
Portraying Leonardo da Vinci or World War II in a video game is challenging game developers to mix fun with facts while academics hope this growing genre will get players more interested in history. Gary Keith Brubaker, a lecturer in game...
In this article: World War II, William Grover-Williams, American Library Association, and Camila Alire
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Jaunted | November 12, 2009
Milan: Leonardo Da Vinci's Notebooks Give You A Reason To Return To Milan
...Give You A Reason To Return To Milan Need several excuses to visit Milan? A Renaissance-era library has begun exhibiting Leonardo da Vinci's notebooks, which due to preservation requirements will go on display 45 pages at a time and...
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USATODAY.com | November 08, 2009
Da Vinci on display in museums across the USA
...Museum. NEW YORK (AP) Cities around the country are in da Vinci mode with shows about Leonardo da Vinci's work. In New York, "Leonardo Da Vinci's Workshop: Inventor + Artist + Dreamer," opens Nov. 20 at the Discovery Times Square...
In this article: United States, High Museum, Atlanta, All rights reserved, The Last Supper, Mona Lisa, and USA Today
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ABC News | November 04, 2009
Looney For Leonardo: Da Vinci Celebrated
...Country To Host Shows About Da Vinci's Art and Inventions Several cities around the country are in da Vinci mode with shows about Leonardo da Vinci's art and inventions. A fingerprint may determine if the work of art is worth millions...
In this article: All rights reserved, The Last Supper, Mona Lisa, J. Paul Getty Museum, Birmingham, Maryland Science Center, Louvre, High Museum, and Windsor Castle
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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (pronunciation, 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 Renaissance man, a man whose unquenchable curiosity was equaled only by his powers of invention. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote".
Born the illegitimate son of a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, at Vinci in the region of Florence, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter, Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice and spent his last years in France, at the home awarded him by Francis I.
Leonardo is revered for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualised a helicopter, a tank, concentrated solar power, a calculator, the double hull and outlined a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or were even feasible during his lifetime, but some of his smaller inventions, such as an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded. As a scientist, he greatly advanced the state of knowledge in the fields of anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics.
- Name At Birth:
- Leonardo di Ser Piero
- Birth Date:
- April 15, 1452
- Birthplace:
- Anchiano by Vinci, Italy
- Death Date:
- May 02, 1519
- Place of Death:
- Amboise, Touraine (in present-day Indre-et-Loire, France)
- Nationality:
- Italian
- Field:
- Many and diverse fields of arts and sciences
- Period:
- High Renaissance
- Works:
- Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Vitruvian Man
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