Da Vinci

*"I am happy to see the smiles of everyone who should be loved."*

* Work

**Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci**(ダ・ヴィンチ *Da vu-inchi*) is a main character in the otome game **Palette Parade**. He is the representation of the Italian painter of the same name and is part of the Renaissance movement.

## Appearance

Da Vinci is depicted with long light blue hair that becomes shorter in back and hazel eyes. He wears a red beret.

He wears a blue patterned top, khaki shorts with a striped belt on top of black capris, and light blue boots. He also wears a silver amulet and carries a tan portfolio.

## Personality

Da Vinci is depicted as effeminate and a child prodigy with talents in a myriad of fields, who excels both artistically and academically. Calm and caring (and also an anachronism, as he was born four centuries before the other main characters), da Vinci can talk about love in a very calm manner but he also has a different side of himself that he only shows to Michelangelo.

His interests include stargazing and invention.

## Historical Background

The real-life da Vinci 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 paleontology, 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 epitomized 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", and he is widely considered one of the most diversely talented individuals ever to have lived. 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.

Leonardo was, and is, renowned primarily as a painter. Among his works, the *Mona Lisa* is the most famous and most parodied portrait and *The Last Supper* the most reproduced religious painting of all time. Leonardo's drawing of the *Vitruvian Man* is also regarded as a cultural icon, being reproduced on items as varied as the euro coin, textbooks, and T-shirts. A painting by Leonardo, *Salvator Mundi*, sold for a world record $450.3 million at a Christie's auction in New York, 15 November 2017, the highest price ever paid for a work of art. Perhaps fifteen of his paintings have survived. Nevertheless, these few works, together with his notebooks, which contain drawings, scientific diagrams, and his thoughts on the nature of painting, compose a contribution to later generations of artists rivalled only by that of his contemporary, Michelangelo. Leonardo is revered for his technological ingenuity. He conceptualized flying machines, a type of armored fighting vehicle, concentrated solar power, an adding machine, and the double hull. Relatively few of his designs were constructed or even feasible during his lifetime, as the modern scientific approaches to metallurgy and engineering were only in their infancy during the Renaissance. Some of his smaller inventions, however, such as an automated bobbin winder and a machine for testing the tensile strength of wire, entered the world of manufacturing unheralded. A number of Leonardo's most practical inventions are nowadays displayed as working models at the Museum of Vinci. He made substantial discoveries in anatomy, civil engineering, geology, optics, and hydrodynamics, but he did not publish his findings and they had no direct influence on later science.