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4月15日:Leonardo da Vinci 達文西、林肯(被刺日)、沙特死 Jean-Paul Sartre


Jean-Paul Sartre's concern, in a phrase, was what it was like to be human. The topic sounded unmanageable, but Sartre linked its core elements—the mind, human values and human freedom—in big loose equations

The philosopher and writer died on April 15th 1980
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Leonardo da Vinci
Mathematician
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, more commonly Leonardo da Vinci or simply Leonardo, was an Italian polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, ...Wikipedia
BornApril 15, 1452, Anchiano
Known forArt, science

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.
Learning never exhausts the mind.



Leonardo da Vinci was born on this day in 1452 near Florence. According to Vasari, sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio trained Leonardo in "all matters pertaining to design." He learned many of the skills that would later serve him as painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer.

"Ginevra de' Benci" is an early work by the artist, completed when he was just 21. The portrait is among Leonardo's earliest experiments with the new medium of oil paint. In his depiction of Ginevra's face, we can see a careful observation of nature. Her lifelike and forthright portrayal broke with conventions of earlier Renaissance portraiture of women, which presented female sitters in a more detached profile view. It is with this new naturalism that Leonardo would transform Renaissance painting.
See Ginevra—the only painting by Leonardo da Vinci in the Americas—in Gallery 6 on the main floor of the West Building.
Leonardo da Vinci, "Ginevra de' Benci" [obverse], c. 1474/1478, oil on panel, National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund







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Abraham Lincoln
16th U.S. President
Abraham Lincoln was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Wikipedia
Height1.93 m
Presidential termMarch 4, 1861 – April 15, 1865

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

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