Da Vinci was not only a great artist he was also it pioneered flight along with in thorough study of human anatomy. Leonardo was a genius during his time, His ideas were far more advanced Then anything else at the time. And technological genius he also was amazing at art and thoroughly enjoyed the study of human anatomy. Most modern aviation technology is based on Leonardo's original ideas.
             Leonardo da Vinci was born on 15 April 1452 in Vinci (near Empolia), Italy.
             he died on 2 May 1519 in Cloux, Amboise, France. He was an Italian artist. (http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Leonardo.html) However most of da Vinci's Drawings and about flight were between 1490 and 1500. (http://mrsedivy.com/da_flight.html) Leonardo wasn't just an artist but his art is well known, many of its art works are renowned works, Such as his most famous painting. In my opinion this goes to prove that Leonardo Da Vinci was truly won the greatest geniuses that ever lived. One notable item, it is very possible that Leonardo was an illegitimate child, because he usually signed things with only 'Leonardo'. He was a vegetarian throughout his life. (http://www.crystalinks.com/leonardodevinci.html) da Vinci lived a fairly adequate life, he was accused of having homosexual relations with one of this models, but was never convicted due to lack of evidence. Besides the one encounter with the law da Vinci never appears to have had a relationship with a women or man, its quite possible that he liked men and women equally. Da Vinci was not very involved with the other artists that lived around him; Raphael and Michelangelo lived in Rome with him for many years and never appear to have any contact.
             Da Vinci's art is what he is most known for, from the beginning da Vinci was an artist, he attended an art school and quickly became better than this teacher. From this point on he was an in demand artist. Other masterpiece...