Leonardo da Vinci is possibly, along with Michelangelo and Dante, the most famous name in Italian art. His ingenuity didn’t only give us some of the most iconic paintings in the world – the Mona Lisa and the Last Supper, just to mention the, perhaps, most famous of them all – but also creative inventions and incredible urbanistic solutions – the network of canals in Milan we know as “navigli” were, in fact, designed by him.

But it isn’t only his artistic greatness to make Leonardo so influential and so well-known, nor is the fact he represents to perfection, with his many interests and achievements, the Renaissance idea of “complete human knowledge.” Leonardo attracts us because he is mysterious. Because while we know a lot about his life, we don’t know everything. He is, at once, the most famous, yet the least familiar artist of all times.