Leonardo da Vinci: The Renaissance Polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519), born Piero Francesco di Ser Piero Antonio Albizzi, was an Italian polymath whose genius spanned painting, sculpture, architecture, engineering, anatomy, geology, botany, cartography, and invention. He is widely regarded as the quintessential Renaissance man—a figure embodying intellectual curiosity and artistic mastery—and remains one of history’s most influe…