Leonardo da Vinci: il genio senza confini

Born in 1452 in Anchiano, near to Vinci, Leonardo showed from earliest childhood an curiosity insatiable for the world natural.

His notebooks notebooks, full of sketches and notes written in mirror, reveal a mind that never knew limits. He designed machines flying, chariots armoured, musical instruments musical and even a robot mechanical, centuries before these inventions became became reality.

As a painter, Leonardo revolutionised the technique of chiaroscuro and of the sfumato, creating works that seemed to breathe. The Mona Lisa, kept at the Louvre, continues to hypnotise millions of visitors every year.

In his studies studies anatomical, Leonardo dissected more than than thirty corpses to understand the workings of the human body human. His anatomical drawings anatomical were so precise that they anticipated the discoveries of modern medicine modern by centuries.

It has been often discussed whether Leonardo was above all an artist or a scientist. The answer most honest is that for him that distinction simply did not exist.