da Vinci

(1452-1519) Italian painter, sculptor, inventor, engineer, scientist, painter of the "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper"

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci , April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was a Tuscan (Italian) polymath: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician and writer. Born at Vinci in the region of Florence, the illegitimate son of a notary, Messer Piero, and a peasant girl, Caterina, 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 where several of his major works were created. He also worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice, spending his final years in France at the home given him by King François I.
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Noun
1. Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519)
(synonym) Leonardo, Leonardo da Vinci
(hypernym) old master

n. da Vinci, (1452-1519), Italian painter