Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci ( ; April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer whose 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. 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". Marco Rosci points out, however, that while there is much speculation about Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time.

Leonardo da Vinci [] (* 15. April 1452 in Anchiano bei Vinci; † 2. Mai 1519 auf Schloss Clos Lucé, Amboise, eigentlich: Leonardo di ser Piero, toskanisch auch Lionardo) war Maler, Bildhauer, Architekt, Anatom, Mechaniker, Ingenieur und Naturphilosoph. Sein Namenszusatz „da Vinci“ ist kein Familienname, sondern bedeutet aus Vinci. Der Geburtsort Vinci ist ein Kastell bzw. befestigtes Hügeldorf und liegt im Florentiner Territorium (ca. 30 km westlich von Florenz) nahe Empoli.

Léonard de Vinci (Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, dit Leonardo da Vinci), né à Vinci le et mort à Amboise le 2 mai 1519, est un peintre florentin, qui fut un homme d'esprit universel, à la fois artiste, scientifique, ingénieur, inventeur, anatomiste, peintre, sculpteur, architecte, urbaniste, botaniste, musicien, poète, philosophe et écrivain.

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Leonardo da Vinci, właściwie (ur. 15 kwietnia 1452 r. w Vinci we Włoszech, zm. 2 maja 1519 r. w Clos Lucé we Francji) – włoski, renesansowy malarz, architekt, filozof, muzyk, poeta, odkrywca, matematyk, mechanik, anatom, geolog.