Welcome back to Bloomin’ Legends! The podcast where we uncover the wildest, most legendary, and unbelievable true stories from history!
In this episode, Johnny Vaughan and Gavin "The Woodman" Woods explore the wildly inventive, mind-blowingly brilliant, and just a bit bizarre life of Leonardo da Vinci, the illegitimate son of a notary who went on to define the Renaissance. He painted the world’s most famous smile, dissected corpses for fun, and sketched helicopters 500 years before they existed.
What You’ll Hear in This Episode:
🎨 Beyond the Mona Lisa – Why da Vinci’s notebooks were more explosive than his paintings
🧠 The Original Multi-Hyphenate – Artist, engineer, scientist, anatomist, dreamer, and occasional procrastinator
🚁 Future Tech in the 1400s – Flying machines, robots, and war inventions way ahead of their time
🕵️♂️ Secret Symbols & Smirks – What’s really going on in his most famous works?
Bloomin’ Legend or Not?
At the end of the episode, we decide: Was Leonardo da Vinci a true Bloomin’ Legend? Or just an eccentric with a sketchbook and a good PR team?
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