Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci (1452--1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance -- painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist and architect -- widely regarded as one of the greatest minds in human history. As a painter he produced some of the most iconic images in Western art, including the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper and Vitruvian Man, and his thousands of pages of annotated scientific drawings range from anatomical studies to flying machines, gun designs and hydraulic engineering (Wikipedia)