No other paintings have been festured in songs poems and stories made into parodies, studied and reproduced than this famous work of Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci beetwen 1452 – 1519. Revert by art historians not only for his genius, but also for his physical beauty and grace and his thirst for knowledge, he had taken apprenticehip with a famous artist at the time he was 14. Da vinci continued to expand his interest, experiments and explorations in other fields. Although he is most renowned as a painter, the Italian was also among others a brilliant scientist, engineer, musician, writer, botanist and invetor. As a scientist and invetor da Vinci was ahead of his time although not many of his ides were feasible at the time. For example, he had ideas for a helicopter, calculator and tank. His brilliance earned him a place at the taking king’s palace until the day he died.