Vinci
Americannoun
noun
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“All those same people a few hundred years ago when Da Vinci was using the camera obscura were like, ‘Get your proportions right, just by eye.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026
Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and now Raphael: New York's prestigious Metropolitan Museum of Art is dedicating a retrospective to the third of the great masters of the Italian Renaissance.
From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026
While Leonardo da Vinci struggled to finish his projects, and Michelangelo tended to focus obsessively on the same themes, Raphael completed an astonishing number and variety of commissions in his short life.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 24, 2026
Leonardo da Vinci would have recognized a kindred spirit.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 18, 2026
He remembered the potion of forgetting that Leonardo and Enzo da Vinci had taken.
From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell
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