Even a man as brilliant as Leonardo da Vinci felt the need to bend horseshoes and iron door knockers, just to show that he could.

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There's Antonello da Messina's skeptical young man with thick curling hair and a black cappuccio (1478) and Laurana's nuanced marble of the introspective bluestocking Beatrice of Aragon (c. 1474-75).

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Leonardo Da Vinci was the eponymous Renaissance man.

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