Who the Hell Was… Leonardo da Vinci?

Who the Hell Was… Leonardo da Vinci?

The original multitasker — artist, engineer, anatomist, dreamer. Leonardo da Vinci didn’t have one life’s work; he had dozens. He painted The Last Supper and Mona Lisa in between designing helicopters, studying cadavers, and sketching war machines that wouldn’t exist for 400 years. If curiosity were oxygen, he breathed pure.

Leonardo’s notebooks reveal a mind in permanent beta — constantly iterating, obsessed with how light bends, blood flows, and gears turn. He saw no difference between art and science; both were forms of seeing. To him, painting was anatomy, flight was faith, and invention was confession.

The Renaissance didn’t create Leonardo; he was the Renaissance. In an era of rigid belief, he embodied unholy curiosity — a willingness to ask questions no church or king could answer. The rest of us are still catching up, sketching in the margins of his unfinished ideas.