Artist/Renaissance Man
The intellectual powers which allowed Leonardo to overcome the 'dry and
hard manner' (as Vasari called it) of the Quattrocento were, however, so diffused
over an enormous range of interests that he brought hardly any major enterprise
to a conclusion: he almost discovered the circulation of the blood, he invented
the first armoured fighting vehicle, projected several aircraft and helicopters
and anticipated the submarine, but not one of these discoveries was completed;
and in the same way he left thousands of notes and drawings but only a handful
of paintings, and still fewer completed ones.
Source: The Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists (Penguin Reference Books)
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