Here are 28 interesting Leonardo da Vinci facts. 1-5 Leonardo da Vinci Facts Image credit: en.wikipedia.org. 1. Leonardo da Vinci's Codex Hammer was purchased for $30,802,500 in 1994 by Bill Gates; 3 years later he released a digital version of the historic diary for all the world to enjoy.- Source 2. Leonardo made many important discoveries. For instance, he produced the first accurate depiction of the human spine, while his notes documenting his dissection of the Florentine centenarian Leonardo scholar Martin Kemp calls them "wild theories and untrammeled fantasy." The need to find secret symbols in a painting seems inspired by novelist Dan Brown, whose book The Da Vinci Code brought slews of visitors to the Louvre. The most popular theory is that the Mona Lisa is a portrait of a man. Either Leonardo himself or his pupil Leonardo da Vinci, Portrait of Lisa Gherardini (known as the Mona Lisa), c. 1503-19, oil on poplar panel, 77 x 53 cm (Musée du Louvre, Paris) An important copy of the Mona Lisa was recently discovered in the collection of the Prado in Madrid. The background had been painted over, but when the painting was cleaned, scientific analysis In August 2003, da Vinci's Madonna of the Yarnwinder, valued at $65 million, was stolen from Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland by two men posing as tourists. They escaped in a Volkswagen Golf. 16. Leonardo designed an armored car, a scythed chariot, a pile driver, a revolving crane, a pulley, a lagoon dredge, and a flying ship. 17. The Leonardo da Vinci painting The Annunciation painted on oil and tempera on a 98 cm by 217 cm panel was originally attributed to another painter, Domenico Ghirliando. It was until 1869 when art experts from the nineteenth century recognized the painting style to be from the hand of the renowned Leonardo da Vinci executed in c. 1472 - c. 1475. 99NfBu2.

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