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Top Leonardo da Vinci artworks Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he also became known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and paleontology. Leonardo's genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal, and his collective works compose a contribution to later generations of artists matched only by that of his younger contemporary, Michelangelo. Leonardo is among the greatest painters in the history of art and is often credited as the founder of the High having many lost works and less than 25 attributed major works—including numerous unfinished works—he created some of the most influential paintings in Western art. Revered for his technological ingenuity, he
