LEONARDO DA VINCI, A UNIVERSAL GENIUS

Exceptional destinies

An episode from the series SECRETS OF HISTORY - PORTRAITS

Synopsis

Leonardo da Vinci is the emblematic figure of the Renaissance. He was a virtuoso painter, visionary engineer, architect, botanist, anatomist, mathematician, and more.

However, the image of the old scholar with the beard of a prophet should not make us forget that he was also a dashing young man.

Driven by an obsessive quest for perfection, his life has known many ups and downs that SECRETS OF HISTORY recounts, from his Florentine youth to his last years in the beautiful Loire castles, in the company of his friend King Francis I.