Leonardo was a true renaissance man because he was a genious, he was a mathematician, an artist, a sculptor, a physician and he was an architect he was also an engineer, this shows that he was a true renaissance mean because the renaissance was a time of rebirth of the roman and greek ideas of mathematics, art , sculpting, and architecture, also engineering in the roman and greek times was far more advanced than the middle ages and throughout the renaissance the engineering became more and more advanced. Leonardo was a big part in this because he was one of the few people who dared to discect human bodies, he was a master at anatomical accuracy. He also invented the technique of sfumato which blends colours into each other to create depth and distance.