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'''Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci '''<span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">(April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519, Old Style</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">) was an Italian Renaissance polymath:[[File:Leonardo_Da_Vinci.png|thumb]]</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">, botanist</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">, and writer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination".</span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;font-size:11px;line-height:11px;"> </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;"> He is widely considered to be one of the greatest </span><span style="font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;">painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. He created artwork like the Mona Lisa, and sketches like the Flying Machine, and Vitruvian Man. There are no portraits of Leonardo Da Vinci, though he did draw a sketch of himself. He shares a disorder with George called Dyslexia. He appeared in the episode [[The Boy with His Head in the Clouds]], where he is George's Renaissance project for [[Nigel Ratburn|Mr. Ratburn]]'s class and his painting of the Mona Lisa is a favorite to the cat called [[Nemo]] in the episode [[Fifteen]].</span>
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'''Leonardo Da Vinci''' was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. He has been referenced multiple times in the series:
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*In "[[The Boy with His Head in the Clouds]]," he is George's Renaissance project for [[Nigel Ratburn|Mr. Ratburn]]'s class, as George finds that Da Vinci also had dyslexia
*His painting of the Mona Lisa is referenced in "[[Fifteen]]," when a version of it is shown with cat whiskers.
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Leonardo Da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. He has been referenced multiple times in the series: