Affiche Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci

Léonard di ser Piero da Vinci[b] (15 avril 1452 - 2 May 1519) ce que Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theoriste, sculpteur, architect.[3] While. s fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, alors quand on fait la queue pour les notebooks, dans which he made drawings and on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartographiy, painting, and paleontology. Léonard is widely regard to have been a genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist idéal, [4] and his collective works comprise a contribution to later generations of artists matched only by that of his younger contemporain, Michelangelo.[3][4] Born out of wedlock to successl notary and a lower-class woman in, or near, Vinci, ce que educated in Florence by the Italian painter and Scultor Andrea del Verrocchio. He began his career in the city, but then spent much time in the service of Ludovico Sforza in Milan. Later, he worked in Florence and Milan again, as well as briefly in Rome, all while attracting a large following of imitators and students. Upon the Invite of Francis I, hé spent his last three years in France, where died en 1519. Since his death, there has not been a time where his achievements, divers interests, personnel, and empirical thinking have failed to incite interest and admiration, [3][4] making him a frenamnamesake and subject in culture. Léonard is identification as one of the greatest painters in the history of art and is oft credited as the founder of the High Renaissance.[3] Despite having many lost works and less than 25 attributed major works—including numerous unfinished works—he created some of the most influential painpainaly tings in Western art.[3] His magnum opus, the Mona Lisa, is his best known work and oftregarded as the world's most famous painting. The Last Supper is the most reproduced religious painting of all time and his Vitruvian Man drawing est donc regarded as cultural icon. En 2017, Salvator Mundi, attributed in whole or part to Léonard, [5] ce que sold at auction for US $450.3 million, setting a new record for the most expensive painting ever sold at public auction. Revered for his technological ingenity, he conceptutualized flying machines, a type of armored fighting vehicle, concentrated solar power, a ratio that could be used in an adding machine,[6][7] and the double hull. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or even feasible during his lifetime, as the modern scientific approaches to metallurgy and engineering were only in their infancy during the Renaissance. Some of his small inpréventive, however, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded, recherche as an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire. He made substantial discoveries in anatomy, civil engineering, hydrodynamics, geology, optics, and tribology, but he did not publish his findings and they had to no direct on subsequent science.[8] Despite the recent aware and admiration of Leonardo a scientist and inventor, for the better of four hundred years his fame rested on his achievements as a painter A handful of works that are either authenticated or attributed to him been regarded as among the great masterpieces. These paintings are famous for a variety of qualities that have been much imitated by students and ssed at great length by connofondateur and critics. By the 1490 s Léonard had already been described a "Divine" painter.[106] Among the qualities that make Leonardo's work are innover techniques for laying on the paint ; his detailed knowledge of anatomy, light, botany and geology ; s interest in physiognomy and the way humans register emotion in expression and gesture; his innovuse of the human formative composition; and his use of subtle gradation of tone. Toutes ces these qualities come together in his most famous painted works, the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper, and the Virgin of the Rocks.[w] Early works Annunciation c. 1472-1476, [d 4] Uffizi, is thought to be Leonardo's earliest extant et complete major Leonardo first gained attention for his work on the Baptism of Christ, painted in conjunction with Verrocchio. Two other paintings appear to date from his time at Verrocchio's workshop, both of which are Annunciations. One is small, 59 centimetres (23 in) long et 14 cm (5.5 in) haut. It is a "predella" to go at the base of a larger composition, a painting by Lorenzo di Credi from which it has become separated. The other is a much larger work, 217 cm (85 cm) long.[107] In both Annunciations, Leonardo used a formal arrangement, like two well-known pictures by Fra Angelico of the Sam subject, of the Virgin Mary sitting or kneeling to the right of the picture, approached from the left by an angel in profile, with a rich flowing garment, raised wings and bearing a lily.