How Leonardo Da Vinci's legacy has lived on in pop culture

The Renaissance polymath may have died on this day in 1519, but his memory has lived on through all sorts of representations over the past 500 years, writes Donal O’Keeffe.

Leonardo si ser Piero da Vinci departed this world on 2 May 1519 at the venerable age of 67, but he has enjoyed an astonishing afterlife.

Born out of wedlock to a Florentine notary and a peasant woman, Leonardo became, in his own lifetime, an enduring figure in popular culture.