Leonardo Da Vinci: Renaissance Man

Leonardo da Vinci explains in a notebook entry, The Art of Painting that artists should know human anatomy because it makes the art realistic. The Renaissance was a time period during the 1500s of the revival of art, literature and learning . The Renaissance marked the transformation from medieval time to modern time. Leonardo da Vinci was a well rounded renaissance man. He is a renaissance man because he had many talents. Da Vinci painted, created sculptures and inventions. He was also good at mathematics, architecture, and engineering. He studied the faces of people to find different types of structures. By studying the specific variations of the face and different features of the body artists make their drawing realistic. He found about