Leonardo da Vinci

This film tells the story of Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, best known as Leonardo da Vinci, a fifteenth-century Italian polymath of soaring imagination and profound intellect, who left behind artistic works of staggering beauty and detailed sketches of futuristic contraptions of warfare and flight marveled at today for their technical ingenuity and foresight.From his birth out of wedlock to a notary and peasant woman and apprenticeship to a distinguished Florentine painter to his days as a mi…