Da Vinci (Illustrated)

One of the highest epochs in painting during the Renaissance was reached by Leonardo da Vinci; born in 1452, in the Castle Vinci, in the neighborhood of Florence, he died in France in 1519.

He was one of those rare phenomena, with whom, by nature loved to combine all conceivable human perfections; his beauty was as graceful as it was dignified, his physical strength was scarcely conceivable, and his mental gifts were of a character more versatile than is scarcely ever combined in the same p...