1. He could write with one Hand and draw with the other Hand at the same time.
2. Leonardo was one of the first Italians to use oil paint .
3. Leonardo da Vinci left many paintings unfinished and destroyed most of his work.
4. Two of his works, the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, are the most famous, most reproduced and most parodied portrait and religious painting of all time.
5. Leonardo was a vegetarian who loved animals and despised war, yet he worked as a military engineer to invent advanced and deadly weapons.
6. Leonardo drew the plans for the first armored car in 1485!
8. Leonardo da Vinci created an inflatable tube so people could float in the water.
15. Leonardo would wear pink to make his complexion look fresh.
17. The Mona Lisa is perhaps his most famous work. The subject of this portrait is still debated to this day, the most popular current view being that it is of Lisa Gerhardine Del Gioconda. One of the most unusual hypotheses is that it is a self-portrait of Leonardo as a woman.
22. Leonardo sketched the first parachute, first helicopter, first airplane , first tank, first repeating rifle, swinging bridge, paddle-boat and the first motorcar.
2. Leonardo was one of the first Italians to use oil paint .
3. Leonardo da Vinci left many paintings unfinished and destroyed most of his work.
7. He invented the bicycle 300 years before it appeared on the road.
9. Leonardo da Vinci had dyslexia, when he made notes on his inventions it was all written in reverse, which made it hard for others to dig through his notes and steal his ideas.
10. Leonardo da Vinci dug into graveyards at night to steal corpses and study human anatomy (and find out where the soul was).
11. He produced aeriel maps for Cesare Borgia which are still accurate today.
12. Leonardo was famous for the way he used light in his portraits.
13. He painted The Last Supper at Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan; a dramatic depiction of the moment Jesus announced that he would be betrayed.
14. He established modern techniques of scientific illustration with highly accurate renderings such as ‘Embryo in the Womb’.
16.Leonardo da Vinci never married or had children.
18. It took da Vinci about ten years to paint Mona Lisa's lips.
19. Leonardo is considered by many as the father of modern science.
20. He was one of the most acclaimed artists of the Renaissance.
21. He was the illegitimate child of Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, a Florentine notary, and Caterina, a peasant.
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23. Leonardo was very much interested in the possibility of human flight. He produced many studies of the flight of birds and plans for several flying machines.
24. He was also a sculptor, designer of costumes, mathematician and botanist.
25. He made maps of Europe.
26. He invented hydraulic pumps.
27. He designed a movable bridge for the Duke of Milan.
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