Leonardo
Patrons might find his failures to complete a commission exasperating, just as we may share their regrets at the perfectionism which made it difficult for him to bring a work of art to a successful conclusion, but contemporaries generally had no doubts about the genuis of Leonardo da Vinci. Naturally, in that era of classical revival, he was often compares with the great scholars of ancient Greece, with Archimedes, Pythagoras, and most of all, perhaps, with Plato, whose figure in Raphael's famous painting of the School of Athens is generally believed to be modeled on the venerable Leonardo. This is his life and architecture. Over 400 pages of his achievements and life works.

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