[[File: Leonardo 1.jpg|200px|thumb|left|Leonardo’s drawing of Vitruvian Man]]__NOTOC__
The Italian Renaissance was one of the most remarkable periods in all of Western History. It was an era of great cultural achievements that laid the foundation of the modern world, and it produced many remarkable individuals. One of the most remarkable of these was Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)was a critical figure in the late Renaissance. He Not only is widely he regarded as one of the greatest artists who ever lived. However, but he was so much more than this he was also a polymath and is often referred to as a ‘Universal Genius’. Among the subjects that he contributed made remarkable contributions to were science, engineering, mechanicsarchitecture, science, urban planning, cartographercartography, philosophy, and anatomyduring the Renaissance. While some of this work was done in secret, he also was a prominent artist, architect, and othersengineer.
Leonardo is recognized as making a unique contribution to the Renaissance, that period of time which saw the re-birth of learning and a move to a secular worldview. The Florentine artist and polymath made a decisive contribution to this epoch. He decisively influenced artistic trends in his own time and in the later Renaissance. His interest in science and experiment inspired many humanists to study the world and nature. He While he was also a great inventor, but his inventions had little impact, on his own era.
====The life of Leonardo Da Vinci====