Multidisciplinary artist, scientist, inventor and Tuscan (Italian) philosopher born in 1452 and died in 1519. His talent as a painter earned him recognition from his contemporaries very early in his life, particularly patrons and protectors. The extent of his work in engineering, mathematics, science, architecture and anatomy, among other fields, was discovered much later (in the 19th and 20th centuries). The fact that he had no university training certainly slowed him down somewhat in his research, but above all it spared him the rigidity of an academic approach. Vinci alone embodies the spirit of the Renaissance.