Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) was one of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance. An acclaimed genius, Leonardo Da Vinci was also an architect, draftsman, engineer, inventor, mathematician, philosopher and visionary, whose research and studies contributed to many developments in modern day science. Da Vinci was ever-prepared to call everything into question, or phoenix like, reduce to ashes the creations and intellectual efforts that had absorbed him for years, and start all over again.
