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“ LEONARDO DA VINCI.” Royal Mail ~ Stamps Presentation Pack! Pack No. 567. The 500th anniversary of the death of
one of the most famous universal scholars of all time is being commemorated in
2019. The Italian Leonardo da Vinci went down in history as a painter, sculptor and architect as well as a mechanic, engineer, anatomist and natural philosopher. Even as a child, Leonardo liked to
explore the laws of nature. His father sent him to the workshop of the
Florentine sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio for training. Da Vinci's numerous works of art, including paintings such as "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper", made him one of the leading artists of the Renaissance. But again and again he devoted himself to his other interests too: He dissected more than thirty corpses and made precise anatomical drawings of them. His passion for
flying devices was not merely theoretical either. Among other things, he
constructed a forerunner of the helicopter. Date of Issue: 13 February 2019.
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