Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (14/15 April 1452
– 2 May 1519),
more commonly
Leonardo da Vinci or simply
Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance whose areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology,
and architecture, and he is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time.