Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, more commonly
Leonardo da Vinci (; 15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519), was an
Italian polymath whose areas of interest included
invention,
painting,
sculpting,
architecture,
science,
music,
mathematics,
engineering,
literature,
anatomy,
geology,
astronomy,
botany,
writing,
history, and
cartography. He has been variously called the father of
paleontology,
ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the
parachute,
helicopter and
tank, his genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.