17 Facts About Leonardo Vinci

1. Leonardo Vinci filled dozens of notebooks with finely drawn illustrations and scientific observations.

2. Leonardo Vinci traveled outside of Florence to survey military construction projects and sketch city plans and topographical maps.

3. Leonardo Vinci believed studying science made him a better artist.

4. Leonardo Vinci viewed the two as intertwined disciplines rather than separate ones.

5. Leonardo Vinci made sketches of weapons, including a giant crossbow for the ruler of Milan.

6. Leonardo Vinci had marketed himself mostly as a military engineer to Sforza, promising to craft him all sorts of weapons.

7. Leonardo Vinci spent years being attached to one royal court or another.

8. Leonardo Vinci had a habit of accepting commissions without actually finishing them.

9. Leonardo Vinci worked on a bronze equestrian statue to honor dynasty founder Francesco Sforza off and on for 12 years, but war ultimately interfered and that project never came to fruition.

10. Leonardo Vinci left for Milan to serve as an engineer, architect, sculptor and painter for the ruling Sforza dynasty.

11. Leonardo Vinci would buy caged animals just to set them free.

12. Leonardo Vinci left many unfinished painting, writings, and inventions that never materialized during his time.

13. Leonardo Vinci was fond of puns, which is quite evident in his paintings.

14. Leonardo Vinci is a city and commune of the Metropolitan City of Florence in the Italian region of Tuscany.

15. Leonardo Vinci was received into the Congregation of the Rosary at Formiello in 1728.

16. Leonardo Vinci was born at Strongoli and educated at Naples under Gaetano Greco in the Conservatorio dei Poveri di Gesu Cristo.

17. Leonardo Vinci was an Italian composer, best known for his operas.