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Astrology Birth Chart of Leonardo da Vinci (Painter) 2024

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he also became known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and paleontology. Leonardo's genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal, and his collective works compose a contribution to later generations of artists matched only by that of his younger contemporary, Michelangelo. Born out of wedlock to a successful notary and a lower-class woman in, or near, Vinci, he was educated in Florence by the Italian painter and sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio. He began his career in the city, but then spent much time in the service of Ludovico Sforza in Milan.

Renaissance painter, inventor, polymath, musician, and architect who created the classic Vitruvian Man and painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. He also invented tanks, concentrated solar power, and adding machines, as well as pioneering important advances in anatomy, civil engineering, optics, and hydrodynamics.