Which artist best embodies the Renaissance ideal through major contributions to both art and science?

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci is often seen as the artist who best embodies the Renaissance ideal: painter, engineer, anatomist, inventor, and tireless observer of nature. Works such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper sit alongside notebooks filled with studies of flight, mechanics, and the human body. His range across art and science made him a lasting symbol of Renaissance humanism.