Leonardo Da Vinci

Self Portrait of Leonardo Da Vinci,  1512, Red Chalk on Paper

Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) has given the world countless masterpieces  and he has shown what it takes to be a true Renaissance artist. Giorgio Vasari has a few words in store for him:  "Nature so favoured him that, wherever he turned his thought, his mind, and his heart, he demonstrated such divine inspiration that no one else was ever equal to him in the perfection, liveliness, vitality, excellence, and grace of his works." Leonardo created some of the world's most notable works including he Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and many more. He was an mathematician, sculptor, painter, musician, scientist and inventor among other things. He was always looking for challenge according to Giorgio Vasari. He also was very curious about things around him and had a persistent attitude towards learning.  We also know that he rarely finished works and Giorgio Vasari explains his reasoning of why that is : "It is clearly evident that because of Leonardo's understanding of art, he began many projects but never finished any of them, feeling that his hand could not reach artistic perfection in the works he conceived, since he envisioned such subtle, marvelous  and difficult problems that his hands, while extremely skillful, were incapable of ever realizing them." However even the unfinished works we have of him today are still considered to be done so beautifully and we would rather take unfinished than none at all because he truly had talent and was considered to be the epitome of the term “Renaissance Man.”.