Part 1 of Essay
The term Renaissance man was used to describe this great man, Leonardo Da Vinci. He was the man of so many accomplishments in so many areas of human endeavor that his like has rarely been in human history. Casual patrons of the arts know him as the painter of the “Mona Lisa” and the great “Last Supper”, painted on the w ....

Part 2 of Essay
.... of the human body elevated drawings in Renaissance science. Leonardo’s remarkable illustrations of the human body elevated drawings into a means of a scientific exposition. It also provided the basic principles for modern scientific illustrations. Leonardo was born in 1452 on is father’s estate at Vinci, near Florence. He grew up and was educated in the same estate. When he was fifteen his father apprenticed him to the artist Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence. Under Verricchio he studied painting, s ....