Leonardo da Vinci & the Renaissance

Nicolás is now learning about the Renaissance at school. He is being taught the importance of humanism, the return to classical antiquity, ingenuity and observation of your surroundigs, all values that had little to do with the Middle Ages and its mindset. And who better than Leonardo da Vinci to illustrate this new and daring spirit. So, we watched —and commented— BBC's documentary on Leonardo, in three different parts. Here is the link to the first part of episode 1. You will find the rest on YouTube.




What did I learn?
(Nicolás)
I'd say that Leonardo da Vinci was a very knowledgeable person and probably the most intelligent person known to humanity. His work involved science, art and technology and, on the other hand, every scientist we know (besides Leonardo) only studied and worked on one thing that they where good at and they never really studied anything else. Leonardo was a great artist, a great mechanical engineer, a great anatomist and a great philosopher. His real name is actually Leonardo di Ser Piero da Vinci.