Leonardo da Vinci

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Design for a flying machine 1488

Leonardo da Vinci

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Leonardo, Códice del vuelo de los pájaros.

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Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

Leonardo da Vinci (born on this day, 1452)

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Leonardo da Vinci felt so strongly against people eating animals that he would often buy chickens to set them free. He wrote: “I have, from an early age, abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men.”

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A Copse of Trees, 1508 red chalk on paper Leonardo da Vinci

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A statue of Leonardo outside the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, based upon contemporary descriptions.

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Leonardo's childhood home in Anchiano.

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Leonardo da Vinci was a vegetarian and animal rights activist, he would buy caged birds and set them free.

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Caricature of a Man with Bushy Hair

1495

by Leonardo da Vinci

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Leonardo’s ‘lost’ Christ, sold for £45 in 1956 – now valued at £120m

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self portrait; 1515

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Leonardo da Vinci, Drapery for a seated figure, Musée du Louvre, Paris, inv. no. 2255 Brush and gray tempera, highlighted with white, on gray prepared linen

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Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

Leonardo da Vinci

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There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.

Leonardo da Vinci

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The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

Leonardo da Vinci