Fortunately, anyone can appreciate art, especially with guidance from the 15th-century Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci ... by educating himself through observation and experience, by studying ...

His father, Ser Piero da Vinci ... the scientific method.” For Leonardo, the precepts of science—observation, hypothesis, and experiment—were critical to art. He moved fluidly between ...

Leonardo da Vinci approached ... was through observation and experience, and he spent hours watching birds flying or trees blowing in the wind. At the same time, Leonardo studied art and ...