Leonardo da Vinci
文艺复兴最完美的代表——列奥纳多·达·芬奇

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was an Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal.
列奥纳多·达·芬奇(1452—1519)是意大利的一个博学家：除了是画家，他还是雕刻家、建筑师、音乐家、数学家、工程师、发明家、解剖学家、地质学家、制图师、植物学家和作家。达·芬奇被公认为历史上最伟大的画家之一，或许也是至今通晓领域最多的人。同其他人相比，他的才华也许最能代表文艺复兴时期的人文主义理想。

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 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 him by Francis I.
达·芬奇出生在佛罗伦萨的芬奇，是公证员瑟皮耶罗·达·芬奇和农妇卡特琳娜的私生子。列奥纳多从小在著名的佛罗伦萨画家委罗基奥的画室受教育。他的很多早期工作是在米兰为摩尔人鲁多维科服务。达·芬奇后来在罗马、波隆那和威尼斯工作，并在法国弗朗索瓦一世授予他的住宅中度过了晚年。

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, with their fame approached only by Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam . 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.
无论过去还是现在，达·芬奇作为画家的身份最为出名。在他的作品中，《蒙娜丽莎》是最负盛名且最常被模仿的肖像画。《最后的晚餐》是历史上被复制次数最多的宗教绘画，只有米开朗琪罗的《创造亚当》能与之媲美。列奥纳多的绘画《维特鲁威人》也被认为是一个文化象征，被广泛复制在各种各样的物品上，如欧元硬币、教科书和T恤衫。