About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 83. Chapters: Facial features, Physiognomists, Leonardo da Vinci, Pythagoras, Geoffrey Chaucer, Nostril, Epicanthic fold, Thomas Browne, Cheek, Cleft lip and palate, Eye color, Human eye, Dental anatomy, Nasal reconstruction using a paramedian forehead flap, Facial cleft, Giambattista della Porta, Diprosopus, Wrinkle, Supraorbital ridge, Prognathism, Eyebrow, Zygomatic bone, Widow's peak, Eyelash, Facial symmetry, Jaw, Facial hair, Cauliflower ear, Johann Kaspar Lavater, Unibrow, Physiognomonics, Nasal bone, Sanpaku, Coarse facial features, Philtrum, Adamantius, Samudrika Shastra, Dimple, Polemon of Laodicea, Moleosophy, Cleft chin, Aquiline nose, Double chin, Nasolabial fold, Cupid's bow. Excerpt: Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (.)) (April 15, 1452 - May 2, 1519) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of "unquenchable curiosity" and "feverishly inventive imagination." He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. According to art historian Helen Gardner, the scope and depth of his interests were without precedent and "his mind and personality seem to us superhuman, the man himself mysterious and remote." Marco Rosci points out, however, that while there is much speculation about Leonardo, his vision of the world is essentially logical rather than mysterious, and that the empirical methods he employed were unusual for his time. Born out of wedlock to a notary, Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman, Caterina, at Vinci in the region of Florence, Leonardo was educated in the studio of the renowned Florentine painter, Verrocchi...
