GEO Epoche Edition / GEO Epoche Edition 19/2019 - Leonado Da Vinci

On the 500th anniversary of his death - Painter, researcher, universal genius: 1452-1519. During his lifetime, Leonardo da Vinci was already a celebrated artist in his homeland. "Through the magnificent works of this divine master, his fame grew so much," noted Giorgio Vasari, one of his first biographers, "that everyone who took pleasure in art, indeed all of Florence, desired that he leave something behind there in his memory." Today, however, 500 years after his death on May 2, 1519, Leonardo's aura has far surpassed that of a revered painter: he is now called a universal genius, a giant of the Renaissance, an inventor of modern natural sciences, praised as the first modern man, and even regarded as a visionary of the future, who anticipated flying machines, artificial organs, robots, and even computers in his technical sketches.