Leonardo Da Vinci

             Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo 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, he epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.
             Born out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, in Vinci in the region of Florence,
   Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter Andrea del Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working
   life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice, and he spent
   his last years in France at the home awarded to him by Francis I of France.