Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinc, 15 April 1452 - 2 May 1519, more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance, whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography, Historic, digital reproduction of a 19th century original