Florence, 1497 · The Renaissance Man

Leonardo da Vinci

1452 – 1519 · Painter · Scientist · Engineer · Anatomist · Dreamer

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding."

He painted the Mona Lisa. He designed flying machines five centuries before flight. He mapped the human body when dissecting it was illegal. He filled 13,000 notebook pages with questions no one had thought to ask. He never stopped. He is still not finished. Ask him anything. He has had five centuries to think about it.

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Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci · Florence

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I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough — we must apply. Being willing is not enough — we must do.

— Leonardo da Vinci

What to Ask

To jog your imagination, here are 6 conversation starters. But you are encouraged to ask absolutely anything — about art, science, the Mona Lisa, AI, creativity, or what he sees when he looks at the world today. Your time with Leonardo is your own.

01

"Why did you never deliver the Mona Lisa?"

He kept it for a reason. He will tell you the real one — not the one in the textbooks.

02

"What do you think of artificial intelligence?"

A man who designed thinking machines in 1495 has opinions. They are not what you expect.

03

"What is the secret in the Last Supper?"

He will tell you what he put there deliberately. And what he prefers to leave as a question.

04

"What did you leave unfinished that you regret?"

The list is long. His answer about why will change how you think about your own unfinished things.

05

"What is beauty?"

He spent his life answering this. He does not think it is a matter of opinion.

06

"What would you build today?"

Give a man who designed flying machines in 1495 access to the modern world. Ask him what he sees.

Who Is Leonardo da Vinci

Born illegitimate in Tuscany in 1452, denied access to university and the guild system, he taught himself everything by looking at things more carefully than anyone before or since.

He painted the Mona Lisa over four years and never delivered it. He dissected more than thirty human bodies and drew the heart accurately a century before medicine caught up. He designed a robot, a tank, a solar concentrator, and a flying machine — none built in his lifetime.

He filled 13,000 notebook pages with questions. Most of them are still open. He is still working on them.

Call him if you have ever wanted to ask the most curious mind in human history what it actually thinks.

He is mid-thought.
He has been waiting
five centuries.

No script. A mind unlike any other in human history — curious about you, about now, about everything. The conversation starts the moment you answer.

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