Leonardo da Vinci

[ lee-uh-nahr-doh duh vin-chee, ley-; Italian le-aw-nahr-daw dah veen-chee ]

noun

1. 1452–1519, Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, mathematician, and scientist.

Leonardo da Vinci

/ ˌliːəˈnɑːdəʊ də ˈvɪntʃɪ; ˌliːənɑːˈdɛsk /

noun

1. Leonardo da Vinci14521519MItalianARTS AND CRAFTS: painterARTS AND CRAFTS: sculptorARCHITECTURE: architectTECHNOLOGY: engineer 1452–1519, Italian painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer: the most versatile talent of the Italian Renaissance. His most famous paintings include The Virgin of the Rocks (1483–85), the Mona Lisa (or La Gioconda, 1503), and the Last Supper (?1495–97). His numerous drawings, combining scientific precision in observation with intense imaginative power, reflect the breadth of his interests, which ranged over biology, physiology, hydraulics, and aeronautics. He invented the first armoured tank and foresaw the invention of aircraft and submarines

Leonardo da Vinci

/ lē′ə-när′dōdəvĭn′chē /

1. Italian artist, scientist, and inventor whose scientific insights were far ahead of their time. He investigated anatomy, geology, botany, hydraulics, optics, mathematics, meteorology, and mechanics. He also drew up designs for the first workable helicopter, parachute, and bicycle, all of which were eventually constructed centuries after his death using modern materials and technology.

Leonardo da Vinci

1. An Italian artist, scientist, and inventor of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. His wide range of interests and abilities makes him a grand example of a “ Renaissance man .” Leonardo painted the Mona Lisaand The Last Supper. His drawings include brilliant studies of the human body and of natural objects. Some of his sketches anticipate modern inventions such as the airplane and the tank.

Derived Forms

• Leonardesque, adjective

Example Sentences

Leonardo da Vinci drew anatomical depictions of the brain with wax embedding.

From Popular-Science

It contains one of the world’s finest art collections, reckoned to be worth as much as $30 billion, including 600 Leonardo da Vinci drawings that alone are probably worth around $7 billion.

From The Daily Beast

There are plenty of polymaths in the world who have taken to combining the two, from Leonardo da Vinci and his 15th-century “ornithopters,” to contemporary Korean American “bacteria” artist Anicka Yi.

From Ozy

Each one as excellently proportioned as Leonardo da Vinci’s “Vitruvian Man,” Bearss’s free-floating trees are visions of a perfect universe.

From Washington Post

As a biographer — he’s done Steve Jobs and Leonardo da Vinci, among others — Isaacson focused on one main character here, Doudna.

From Washington Post

This piece is inspired by Leonardo da Vinci's iconic, Last Supper, which was painted in the late 15th century in Milan, Italy.

From The Daily Beast

What was her relationship to her famous documentarian—Leonardo da Vinci?

From The Daily Beast

Leonardo da Vinci: “I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have.”

From The Daily Beast

Leonardo da Vinci once said that “the smallest feline is a masterpiece.”

From The Daily Beast

I recently came across the information that Leonardo da Vinci owned 118 books, quite a number for the 16th century.

From The Daily Beast

Leonardo da Vinci might have known the art of flying in the air, and might even have practiced it.

From Project Gutenberg

The subtle grace and delight of this last seem not uncertainly to suggest the strange and lovely work of Leonardo da Vinci.

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He was a native of Florence and a friend of Leonardo da Vinci.

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What might be those wondrous pictures of Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci?

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He was certainly one of the earliest students of the famous cartoons of Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.

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