Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was a Florentine polymath whose curiosity spanned painting, sculpture, engineering, mathematics, anatomy, and natural philosophy. Born in 1452 in Anchiano, he trained under the Florentine painter Verrocchio before entering the court of Ludovico il Moro in Milan as a young man. There he created some of his most celebrated works while pursuing investigations into human anatomy, mechanics, and the natural world with the same intensity he brought to art.