Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (; 15 April 14522 May 1519), more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Sometimes credited with the inventions of the parachute, helicopter and tank, he epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal.

Many historians and scholars regard Leonardo as the prime exemplar of the "Universal Genius" or "Renaissance Man", an individual of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination". According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent in recorded history, and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, while the man himself mysterious and remote". Marco Rosci notes that while there is much speculation regarding his life and personality, his view of the world was logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unorthodox for his time.

Born out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, in Vinci in the region of Florence, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter Andrea del Verrocchio. Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan. He later worked in Rome, Bologna and Venice, and he spent his last years in France at the home awarded to him by Francis I of France.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who was a polymath?
2. When was he born?
3. Was he a painter?
4. A writer?
5. What is one more thing he was
6. Was did he invent?
7. What is he the father of?
8. What era was he a part of
9. Who is Helen Gardner?
10. What country is Leonardo from?
11. What is his full name?
12. Who is his dad?
13. His mom?
14. Were they married?
15. Who was his teacher?
16. When did Leonardo die?
17. Who did he work for?
18. Who awarded him a home?
19. Where?
20. Where else did he live?
1. Leonardo da Vinci
2. 15 April
3. Yes
4. yes
5. architecture
6. parachute, helicopter and tank
7. palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture
8. Renaissance
9. art historian
10. Italy
11. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
12. Piero da Vinci
13. Caterina
14. No
15. Andrea del Verrocchio
16. May 1519
17. Ludovico il Moro
18. Francis I
19. France
20. Rome, Bologna and Venice