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Leonardo da Vinci
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What does Leonardo da Vinci mean?
noun
- Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519)
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Leonardo da Vinci might have known the art of flying in the air, and might even have practiced it.
“Well,” asked Father Brown rubbing his dusty hair up, “what do you think of Leonardo da Vinci? A beautiful Italian head.”
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In the ‘Last Supper,’ by Leonardo da Vinci, two of the Apostles have their hands half uplifted, clearly expressive of their astonishment.
Almost two thousand years later another famous citizen of Italy, Leonardo da Vinci, was independently to think out similar conclusions from like observations.
Legend and doubtful history carries up to the fifteenth century, and then came Leonardo da Vinci, first student of flight whose work endures to the present day.