Last Friday I happened to read about the way the British remembered the 500th death anniversary of the renaissance artist and also a scientist Leonardo da Vinci. Primarily he is known to the world as the person who painted the Mona Lisa, the woman with a sphinx-like mysterious, subtle and eternal smile on her face. Of course, there are so many other paintings like The Last Supper, The Vitruvian Man to name a few. A possible self-portrait done in the years before he came to Rome in 1513 often defines our image of Leonardo.
