Leonardo

The prototype of the Renaissance ''genius'' Leonardo da Vinci is probably the most famous Italian artist in the world. Artist is however an insufficient definition: he is a painter and designer but also a scientist, scholar of anatomy and hydraulics, engineer, inventor of war machines and theater sets, musician and theorist of the arts. He trained in Florence in Verrocchio's workshop and worked for the Medici, Sforza and the King of France. He left us an enormous amount of manuscript codes and absolute masterpieces of painting of all time such as the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper.