LEONARDO DA VINCI

LEONARDO DA VINCI

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci; (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. 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". 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.

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. Leonardo's drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also regarded as a cultural icon, being reproduced on items as varied as the euro coin, textbooks, and T-shirts.

He conceptualised flying machines, a tank, concentrated solar power, an adding machine, and the double hull, also outlining a rudimentary theory of plate tectonics. He made important discoveries in anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics.

1. Leonardo da Vinci

a)    was a Renaissance genius

b)    was only a musician

c)    was a Middle Age artist

d)    was a good writer of 1900s

2. His famous portrait “Mona Lisa”

a)    is at the Vatican Museums in Italy

b)    is at Louvre Museum in France

c)    is at Prado Museum in Madrid

d)    is at the Uffizi Museum in Florence

3. Leonardo's drawing of the Vitruvian Man

a)    is considered by another artist by some students

b)    is one of his less famous work

c)    is still an icon also today