Leonardo da Vinci Biography

Field Information
Full Name Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
Date of Birth 15 April 1452
Place of Birth Anchiano, Republic of Florence
Date of Death 02 May 1519
Place of Death Clos Lucé, Amboise, Kingdom of France
Citizenship / Country of Residence Republic of Florence, Duchy of Milan, Kingdom of France
Education Apprenticeship with Andrea del Verrocchio
Profession Painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, writer
Years of Activity c. 1466-1519
Brief Information Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath whose interests spanned invention, drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, cartography, botany, and writing. He is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time and possibly the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. His notebooks contain observations on art and science, and inventions that anticipated by centuries the appearance of many modern devices.