Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is considered to be one of the key figures of the Renaissance movement.
He's regarded as one of the greatest artists to have ever lived. Along with art he has also significantly influenced engineering, architecture, science, urban planning, cartography, philosophy, and anatomy during age of Renaissance. While some of this work was done in secret, he also was a prominent artist, architect, and engineer. Leonardo da Vinci was the quintessential Renaissance man.

Leonardo is recognized as making a unique contribution to the Renaissance, that period of time that 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 the later Renaissance. His interest in science and experiment inspired many humanists to study the world and nature. While he was also a great inventor, but his inventions had little impact on his own era.