Da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance who's areas of interest included invention, drawing, painting, sculpture, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, paleontology, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture. He is widely considered as one of the greatest painters of all time despite only fiftheen of his paintings having survive Leonardo da Vinci https://google.com/search/static/gs/ci/m04lg6.html