History Creator / LeonardoDaVinci

Also note, again, that "da Vinci" indicates where he was ''from''. Surnames in their modern form did not exist in Italy at the time and people called him Leonardo, not "da Vinci". Da Vinci simply means "of Vinci", so it would be somewhat like saying "What would [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} Of Nazareth]] do?" This is still the case among historians and people who know what they're talking about - any proper book will call him Leonardo not just out of familiarity, but because it was his only name. (So yes, the book should be called ''[[Literature/TheDaVinciCode The Leonardo Code]]'', but [[DanBrowned/DanBrown we didn't name a trope after Dan Brown for nothing.]])

Leo was probably what we would call homosexual today (as such a word didn’t exist until the 1860s) but due to the passage of time, it’s difficult to say such definitively. When he was 23, he was arrested on a sodomy charge after reportedly hiring a male prostitute. He never wrote much about his personal life but in one of his journals wrote about how disgusting he found procreation. That may be due to him being gay but can also be interpreted as him being (again to use a modern term) asexual. Some believe that after he was arrested for sodomy, he became celibate while others argue that he was actively having relations with men (including a long term relationship with one of his students)
but just got better about hiding it after the arrest. Some biographers like Walter Isaacson will outright say he was gay.

Born in the little village of Vinci (hence "da Vinci", i.e. "from Vinci"), Tuscany, Leonardo apprenticed at the art workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio in UsefulNotes/{{Florence}} at age 14. According to legend, when Leonardo and Verrocchio collaborated on a painting, Verrocchio found himself so outclassed by his apprentice that he abandoned art altogether. It's almost certainly not true - the story comes from Vasari's 1550 ''Lives of the Artists'',[[note]]That's the commonly-used short title, at least. The full title is ''[[LongTitle Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects]]''[[/note]] the first work of art history and full of gossip, legends and apocryphal anecdotes - but it does reflect just how famous he was. Barely thirty years after his death, he was already the stuff of legend.

* Shows up in ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' as a holodeck character in Captain Janeway's Da Vinci's Workshop program, played by Creator/JohnRhysDavies. In "Concerning Flight", an alien named Tau steals his program and becomes his "patron" until Janeway gets him back--which naturally involves creating one of his gliders.

Born in the little village of Vinci (hence "da Vinci", i.e. "from Vinci"), Tuscany, Leonardo apprenticed at the art workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio in UsefulNotes/{{Florence}} at age 14. According to legend, when Leonardo and Verrocchio collaborated on a painting, Verrocchio found himself so outclassed by his apprentice that he abandoned art altogether. It's almost certainly not true - the story comes from Vasari's 1550 ''Lives of the Artists''[[note]]That's the commonly-used short title, at least. The full title is ''[[LongTitle Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects]]''[[/note]], the first work of art history and full of gossip, legends and apocryphal anecdotes - but it does reflect just how famous he was. Barely thirty years after his death, he was already the stuff of legend.

* In ''Anime/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure'', Leonardo [[spoiler: is resurrected by the [=MI6=], to have access to his genius. They can't hold him back, and he, knowing that his new body was about to give out, tried to copy his mind in every single Italian]].

* Leonardo a major character in ''Comicbook/{{SHIELD 2010}}'', one of the members of the Renaissance incarnation of the Brotherhood of the Shield, who [[spoiler: time travels to the 1950s to stop their evil new leader, Isaac Newton]].

** In a Comicbook/{{Batman}} Main/{{Elseworld}}. it's revealed that one of his assistants became a Renaissance Batman (after his parents were killed in the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pazzi_conspiracy Pazzi Conspiracy]], said Batman was painted into the ''Mona Lisa'' (but hidden using pentimento), and [[spoiler: Leonardo fathered a child with Mona]]. Oddly, the story also featured the current Batman, so it could potentially be considered canon.

* In ''ComicStrip/SafeHavens'' a child Leonardo is a recurring character. He's a time traveler alongside his mother Maria, and it's hinted there's a very good reason Maria and Leonardo are interested in Samantha and her friends. [[spoiler: As it turns out, Maria is Samantha and Dave's KidFromTheFuture, meaning Leonardo is their grandson.]] Incidentally, quite a few things about Leonardo's work are explained: the reason so many of his ideas were ahead of their time were because his formative years were spent in the 21st century...and the reason most of them didn't work was because Leonardo ''designed'' it that way because humanity was not ready for the technology back then. It's also been hinted that his friend Candide is the true identity of the Mona Lisa, the painting "The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne" is a portrait of himself, Maria, [[spoiler: and his stepmother Bambi]], and that many more of Leonardo's works exist than historians think, it's just that, thanks to his time travel abilities, many of them were released under assumed names, including [[spoiler: Creator/AndyWarhol]]. After the Mars mission, Leonardo returns to the past to resume his life with his mother's past self.

* ''VideoGame/TheJourneymanProject'': In the second game, ''Buried In Time'', Gage Blackwood is assigned to investigate the studio where Leonardo Da Vinci was working with the Duke of Milan during 1488. The authors actually [[ShownTheirWork did some pretty good research]] on this interpretation, given the amount of historical facts that Arthur can provide, the staggering amount of working prototypes of Leonardo's inventions that match his real-world schematics, and that you can ''read his notebooks up close'', [[spoiler: which you have to do anyway, because somebody tampered with one of them.]]

Leonardo spent time in Florence, Milan and UsefulNotes/{{Rome}}, working for various wealthy patrons. He produced some of the most famous {{paintings}} history: ''Art/TheLastSupper'', ''Art/VirginOfTheRocks'', and, most famous of all, ''The Mona "what-is-she-smiling-at" Lisa'', considered to be either the most beautiful or the most kitschy work of art in history and the most famous, period.

Leonardo di Ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an UsefulNotes/{{Ital|y}}ian painter, sculptor, architect, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, botanist, musician and writer, and perhaps the most famous figure of UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance.

* In ''Manga/CesareIlCreatoreCheHaDistrutto'', he and Cesare Borgia meet in 1491, almost ten years earlier than they did in real life (as far as is known) when Cesare, age 16, visits Lorenzo de'Medici in Florence. Lorenzo offers to introduce a certain genius in his employ to Cesare, and goes to find Leonardo, but Cesare wanders off and finds Leonardo's studio on his own. He sees a notebook with curious writing on it, looks at it for a bit, and realizes on his own that he should hold it up to a mirror to read it, just before Leonardo walks in. The two of them bond over a variety of things, like their intellectual interests, and the fact that they're both illegitimate. A few of Leonardo's comments hint at his sexuality.

Leonardo spent time in Florence, Milan and UsefulNotes/{{Rome}}, working for various wealthy patrons. He produced some of the most famous {{paintings}} history: ''Art/TheLastSupper'', ''Virgin of the Rocks'', and, most famous of all, ''[[Art/TheMonaLisa Mona]]'' [[Art/TheMonaLisa "what-is-she-smiling-at"]] ''[[Art/TheMonaLisa Lisa]]'', considered to be either the most beautiful or the most kitschy work of art in history and the most famous, period.

Besides above-ground art, Leonardo also trafficked in the shady world of anatomy, secretly procuring corpses and dissecting them (an act which could get you killed at the time) to study the human body.

* Art/SistineChapel

!!Works by Leonardo on TV Tropes

Leonardo spent time in Florence, Milan and UsefulNotes/{{Rome}}, working for various wealthy patrons. He produced some of the most famous paintings history: ''Art/TheLastSupper'', ''Virgin of the Rocks'', and, most famous of all, ''[[Art/TheMonaLisa Mona]]'' [[Art/TheMonaLisa "what-is-she-smiling-at"]] ''[[Art/TheMonaLisa Lisa]]'', considered to be either the most beautiful or the most kitschy work of art in history and the most famous, period.

Born in the little village of Vinci (hence "da Vinci", i.e. from Vinci), Tuscany, Leonardo apprenticed at the art workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio in UsefulNotes/{{Florence}} at age 14. According to legend, when Leonardo and Verrocchio collaborated on a painting, Verrocchio found himself so outclassed by his apprentice that he abandoned art altogether. It's almost certainly not true - the story comes from Vasari's 1550 ''Lives of the Artists''[[note]]That's the commonly-used short title, at least. The full title is ''[[LongTitle Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects]]''[[/note]], the first work of art history and full of gossip, legends and apocryphal anecdotes - but it does reflect just how famous he was. Barely thirty years after his death, he was already the stuff of legend.

Born in Vinci, Italy (hence "da Vinci", i.e. from Vinci), Leonardo apprenticed at the art workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio in UsefulNotes/{{Florence}} at age 14. According to legend, when Leonardo and Verrocchio collaborated on a painting, Verrocchio found himself so outclassed by his apprentice that he abandoned art altogether. It's almost certainly not true - the story comes from Vasari's 1550 ''Lives of the Artists''[[note]]That's the commonly-used short title, at least. The full title is ''[[LongTitle Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects]]''[[/note]], the first work of art history and full of gossip, legends and apocryphal anecdotes - but it does reflect just how famous he was. Barely thirty years after his death, he was already the stuff of legend.

Leonardo di Ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer, and perhaps the most famous figure of UsefulNotes/TheRenaissance.

* AdultFear: Mary in the ''Madonna of the Yarnwinder'' sees her infant son happily making a yarn figure of a terrible torture device. The fact that a child would know of such a thing is scary in itself, but Mary's concern shows that she, like her son, understands that such a device will one day be used to spill the blood of her beautiful baby.

* ''WesternAnimation/PeabodyAndSherman'': Thanks to his time machine, Mr Peabody is a close friend to Leonardo, stopping by with Sherman and Penny to recharge the machine with help of one of his inventions in the second act.

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* An alternate verison of the Doctor in the ''AudioPlay/BigFinishDoctorWho Unbound'' series takes Leonardo as a companion. On returning to his own time, his newfound knowledge led to humanity having spaceflight by the 16th century.

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--->'''Ezio:''' Do not let a beautiful girl distract you from constructing my designs.
--->'''Leonardo:''' Have no worries. Women provide little distraction.
--->'''Ezio:''' Wait, I don't get it...
--->''[Leonardo stays silent, then looks away]''

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* In ''WesternAnimation/LupinIIITheItalianAdventure'', Leonardo [[spoiler: is resurrected by the [=MI6=], to have access to his genius. They can't hold him back, and he, knowing that his new body was about to give out, tried to copy his mind in every single Italian]].

** He makes a cameo in the ''Literature/NewDoctorWhoAdventures'' novel ''Happy Endings'', as the creator of Benny's elaborate wedding cake.

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* The titular character in ''Series/DoctorWho'' visits his studio in the story [[Recap/DoctorWhoS17E2CityOfDeath "City of Death"]], but he's out.

* Appears in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' where he is revealed to have been an exterrestrial alien from a planet where everybody is such a genius that he was in fact considered to have been the dumbest one. Therefore he went to Earth because there he would have been considered the smartest. Nevertheless Fry keeps confusing him with Creator/LeonardoDiCaprio.

Leo died in 1519. He was arguably the first real celebrity. He was famous across Europe, as famous as any king, priest or soldier, and celebrated for his art, his intelligence and his good looks. He was subject to gossip and myth in his own lifetime. You can well imagine how things get out of hand after his death. He's part of the trinity of JuliusBeethovenDaVinci and his life often serves as BiographyAClef. He ''probably'' was not an [[Franchise/StarTrek immortal]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} alien]]... or [[Series/DoctorWho friends with a Time Lord]]... or [[Literature/TheDaVinciCode a sacred feminine worshiping cryptologist]]... or an [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII ally of an order of assassins]]. And he was ''definitely'' not a [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles ninja turtle]]. Or an ancestor of [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Stewie Griffin]]. [[VideoGame/FateGrandOrder He also did not return in a female body that looked like the Mona Lisa to help with saving the world]]. And we're decently sure he never [[Series/DavincisDemons traveled to South America in search of a magical book of knowledge.]]

* In ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'', Leonardo is summoned as a Caster class servant. Strangely, when he is summoned, his [[GenderBender body becomes a woman]] who looks identical to the Mona Lisa, and he's [[ManIFeelLikeAWoman thoroughly enjoying being a hot chick]] and flirting with men.