An emblematic figure of Italian culture and beyond, Leonardo da Vinci is the undisputed genius of the Renaissance period. He was born in 1452 in Anchiano, a hamlet of the town of Vinci where he lived and experimented with his works until the age of thirty.
There are many curiosities about Leonardo da Vinci, from when he learned to draw and paint, with a marked propensity towards the study of every form of knowledge; endowed with extreme wit and intelligence, he is remembered for his research in the field of anatomy, engineering and architecture for his curiosity and spirit of observation, so much so that he was nicknamed as “the genius”.
From a very young age Leonardo approached the world of art, then went on to other disciplines. Leonardo enjoyed architecture, theatre, sculpture, cartography and always returned to art. It was in 1503 that he began to paint the Gioconda, perhaps his most famous painting and certainly the one that arouses the most curiosity. Among the curiosities surrounding Leonardo da Vinci’s Gioconda, certainly there is that about the identity of the girl portrayed and her enigmatic smile.
Leonardo’s talents are many: among these are strong qualities in the field of mathematics and science, he begins a spasmodic study and research on fossils, not neglecting anatomy and the study of flight. He was the first to understand the correct functions of the heart and its mechanisms, intuiting that it had the function of a pump, thus changing subsequent studies and treatises on anatomy. He represented, or rather was the first to well represent, human anatomy, taking care to dissect human and animal bodies during the final years of the fifteenth century.
An intellect always in continuous evolution, eager to know, in the early years of the sixteenth century he dedicated himself completely to engineering, his drawings recall modern and advanced objects: the most well-known invention is probably the flying machine that is based on the physiology of a bat. He concentrated on the mechanics of flight and the possible implications for the contemporary world. A multifaceted, Renaissance man and hungry for knowledge, his research and studies were all interconnected.
His country of origin, the hills of Vinci, and his peasant roots could not but lead to a passion for agronomy and thus for vines and wine. Having stayed for a long period in Romagna, he had the opportunity to study carefully the systems of grape learning, exploring the particulars and showing himself particularly attentive to their growth and development. It is precisely dedicated to Leonardo’s stay in Romagna the 1502 Da Vinci in Romagna collection, which gathers the most beloved wines of the Romagna territory according to the stages of the tour that saw him as a guest of these lands for six months.
Leonardo became passionate about agronomy and understood how fundamental it was to create a healthy environment, first of all for the plant; and fertilisation which must be fed with basic and non-invasive substances and finally vinification in closed barrels. Precepts that at the time were considered innovation and that today Leonardo da Vinci Cellars takes as a model as practices for the production of wines.
He had therefore understood the fundamental reasons for a balanced lifestyle and in harmony with the environment in which one lives; a practice extremely useful in order to live at the maximum of pleasantness one’s existence.
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