La Gioconda – known to English-speakers as the Mona Lisa – is the best-known painting at the world’s most prestigious art gallery, but the creator of the Louvre’s famous masterpiece only considered painting to be a hobby. Leonardo da Vinci was the original Renaissance man, a prolific visionary whose genius irrevocably advanced engineering, physics, health sciences and art, while also leading to interesting insights about mathematics, mainly geometry.
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