Painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scienti st, mathemati cian, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer, Leonardo da Vinci was a genius who was well ahead of his ti me and the best example of the Renaissance man. This is the story of one of the greatest painters of all ti me, and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. Leonardo grew up in the hamlet of Anchiano in Tuscany where he received an informal educati on. Young Leonardo had an unquenchable curiosity in life and moved to Florence where he took an interest in painting.