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| | |origin = [[Vinci]], [[Florence]] | ||
| | |first mention = The Time Meddler (TV story) | ||
| | |first = Happy Endings (novel) | ||
| | |appearances = [[Leonardo da Vinci - list of appearances|'''see list''']] | ||
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'''Leonardo da Vinci''' ([[1452]] - [[1519]]) ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'') was an [[Italian]] polymath known for his painting and inventions. His interests and talents covered not just art and sculpture, but also architecture, music, mathematics and engineering; he exemplified the [[Renaissance]] era. | |||
As a painter, his most famous works included the ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' and ''[[The Last Supper]]''. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A History of Humankind (novel)|A History of Humankind]]'') | |||
== Biography == | |||
As his name suggests, Leonardo - "da Vinci" meaning "of Vinci", was born in [[Vinci]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cultural Firsts (short story)|Cultural Firsts]]'') [[Florence]], in [[1452]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[A History of Humankind (novel)|A History of Humankind]]'') | |||
Circa [[1469]], 17-year-old Leonardo was swept up in a [[Rift storm]] and deposited in [[Torchwood Three]]'s [[The Hub|Hub]] in [[1967]], where he met [[Jack Harkness]]. Leonardo was returned to his time using a [[Rift Key]] he had to take with him. The genius managed to disable the self-destruct mechanism and drew the inner workings of the Rift Key. The only copy of this drawing was stored in Torchwood. Leonardo helped the Torchwood team with the mathematical equation necessary to send him back. He worked it out in his head. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cultural Firsts (short story)|Cultural Firsts]]'') | |||
Circa [[1492]], Leonardo and his then-patron the [[Duke of Milan]] were among the guests invited to the masque organised by the young Duke [[Giuliano]] of [[San Martino]]. Being caught up in the [[Mandragora Helix]]'s attempt to conquer [[15th century]] [[Earth]], the [[Fourth Doctor]] missed this opportunity to meet Leonardo, later noting it was probably for the best. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Masque of Mandragora (TV story)|The Masque of Mandragora]]'') | |||
According to one account, in [[1503]], "old Lenny" began painting the first ''[[Mona Lisa]]''. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Art Attack (comic story)|Art Attack]]'') According to another account, circa [[1505]], Leonardo painted it. His model for the painting was [[Clara Oswald]], and the [[Twelfth Doctor]] gave him critique on it. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Swords of Kali (comic story)|The Swords of Kali]]'') Later that year, he was hired by a new patron he knew as "Captain Tancredi", in reality, [[Scaroth]] of the [[Jagaroth]]. Tancredi asked him to paint six extra copies of the ''Mona Lisa''. ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'') One of these copies was painted using oil pigments he borrowed from a neighbouring artist, [[Giuseppe di Cattivo]]. Unbeknownst to either of them, the minerals used in this paint would bring the painting to life in future. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge (TV story)|Mona Lisa's Revenge]]'') | |||
The [[Fourth Doctor]] arrived from [[1979]] [[Paris]] to 1505 [[Florence]] to seek clues to the plot of Count Scarlioni (another of Scaroth's time-splintered selves) to steal the ''Mona Lisa'' from [[the Louvre]]. He found the design of a [[helicopter]] among the papers in his laboratory. After being briefly captured and interrogated by Tancredi, the Doctor wrote "This is a fake" in felt pen on the boards Leonardo would paint the extra Mona Lisa copies. Before returning to the future to try to stop Count Scarlioni, he left him a message written in mirrored font. ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'') | |||
When Leonardo was approximately 60 years old, he used the Rift Key to return to Torchwood Three, this time around [[2007]]. He managed to escape from the Hub into [[Cardiff]], where he saw [[smart phone]]s. Soon he was apprehended by [[Gwen Cooper]], given [[retcon]] and sent back. This time the Torchwood team made sure that the internal workings of the Key would burn out after the travel. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cultural Firsts (short story)|Cultural Firsts]]'') | |||
In [[1516]], Leonardo was forced to sell the Mona Lisa to [[King Francis]], an action which the [[Ninth Doctor]] claimed "broke his heart". ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Art Attack (comic story)|Art Attack]]'') | |||
Leonardo was one of the guests at [[Bernice Summerfield]] and [[Jason Kane]]'s [[Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane's wedding|wedding]] in [[Cheldon Bonniface]] on [[24 April]] [[2010]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Happy Endings (novel)|Happy Endings]]'') | |||
After Leonardo's [[death]], his [[soul]] passed through [[the Moon]]'s influence on its way to [[Heaven (afterlife)|Heaven]] and was captured by the [[Lunary|Lunaries]], who offered to give him a new body. He accepted, and in [[1590]] he greeted the Florentine ambassadors who had arrived on the Moon in [[spacecraft]] based on his designs. He later tried to greet [[Iris Wildthyme]], whom he had met before, but she refused to speak to him. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Minions of the Moon (short story)|Minions of the Moon]]'') | |||
{{ | === Undated events === | ||
[[ | The behaviour of the [[Fourth Doctor]] in the laboratory of Leonardo in 1505 implied they had already met each other. ([[TV]]: ''[[City of Death (TV story)|City of Death]]'') | ||
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[[ | The [[Eighth Doctor]] recounted a tale to [[Alex Campbell]] that he took Leonardo for a trip in the TARDIS to around [[0]] [[AD]], in [[Bethlehem]], where Leonardo checked the lighting for his painting ''Adoration of the Magi''. There, he was given the possibility to watch the nativity of [[Jesus Christ]], but he didn't dare to. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[Relative Dimensions (audio story)|Relative Dimensions]]'') | ||
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[[The Monk's logbook]] recorded a meeting with Leonardo in which he discussed with Leonardo the principles of powered flight. ([[TV]]: "[[Checkmate (episode)|Checkmate]]") | |||
[[River Song]] kept Leonardo busy whilst [[Helen Sinclair]] stole ''[[Reclining Maiden with Foal]]'' and ''[[Church at Brindisi]]''. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[The Doomsday Chronometer (audio story)|The Doomsday Chronometer]]'') | |||
== Legacy == | |||
The [[First Doctor]] owned a painting by Leonardo of a young handsome courtier. [[Ian Chesterton]] described the "lost" painting as "priceless". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Edge of Destruction (novelisation)|The Edge of Destruction]]'') | |||
The flying machine design was used by [[Astrolabus]] while he was fleeing from the [[Sixth Doctor]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Voyager (comic story)|Voyager]]'') By the late [[21st century]], his sketches or a copy thereof, were displayed on the wall of Professor [[Daniel Eldred]]'s space museum; [[The Doctor's TARDIS|the TARDIS]] landed in front of the sketches, carrying the [[Second Doctor]], [[Jamie McCrimmon]], and [[Zoe Heriot]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Seeds of Death (TV story)|The Seeds of Death]]'') | |||
Among a long strip of business cards owned by the [[Sixth Doctor]] for various famous scientists and luminaries was one which read "da Vinci". ([[TV]]: ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]'') | |||
[[Grace Holloway]] had a print of a Leonardo sketch in her home. The [[Eighth Doctor]], upon seeing it, noted that he had a [[Common cold|cold]] when he drew it. ([[TV]]: ''[[Doctor Who (TV story)|Doctor Who]]'') | |||
One of the copies of the ''[[Mona Lisa]]'' painted by Leonardo came to life in the [[21st century]]. ([[TV]]: ''[[Mona Lisa's Revenge (TV story)|Mona Lisa's Revenge]]'') | |||
In [[2020]], the [[Eleventh Doctor]] used Leonardo as one example of people who had [[dyslexia]] that did great things, in order to encourage [[Elliot Northover]] to continue trying. ([[TV]]: ''[[The Hungry Earth (TV story)|The Hungry Earth]]'') | |||
An [[airport]] in [[Rome]] was named after Leonardo da Vinci. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Cultural Firsts (short story)|Cultural Firsts]]'') | |||
== Parallel universe == | |||
In a [[Parallel universe (Auld Mortality)|parallel universe]], a version of [[Leonardo da Vinci (A Storm of Angels)|Leonardo]] was a companion of [[The Doctor (Auld Mortality)|that universe's Doctor]]. ([[AUDIO]]: ''[[A Storm of Angels (audio story)|A Storm of Angels]]'', [[PROSE]]: ''[[The Innocents (short story)|The Innocents]]'') | |||
In [[River Song's World|world that never was]], ([[TV]]: ''[[The Wedding of River Song (TV story)|The Wedding of River Song]]'') Da Vinci teased more "[[The Da Vinci Code|Code]]". ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Just a Minute... (short story)|Just a Minute...]]'') | |||
== Behind the scenes == | |||
* "Da Vinci" was not a family name, and Leonardo was never known to have used a surname in the modern sense. This part of his name merely means "of Vinci", indicating that Leonardo was born in Vinci, a town near [[Florence]]. It is therefore grammatically incorrect to refer to Leonardo as simply "da Vinci", though that form of address remains in somewhat common use and has appeared in ''[[The Two Doctors (TV story)|The Two Doctors]]'', [[Doctor Who (TV story)|the TV movie]] and ''[[The Hungry Earth (TV story)|The Hungry Earth]]'', as well as the title of ''[[Da Vinci's Robots (comic story)|Da Vinci's Robots]]''. | |||
* The title of the episode ''[[The Shakespeare Code (TV story)|The Shakespeare Code]]'' is a play on the title of the popular Dan Brown novel {{wi|The Da Vinci Code}} which dealt with a centuries-old conspiracy theory involving secret codes allegedly included in some of Leonardo's works. ''The Da Vinci Code'' was itself heavily inspired by the non-fiction book {{wi|The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail}} by former ''Doctor Who'' scriptwriter [[Henry Lincoln]]. | |||
* Leonardo da Vinci is one of very few characters to be referenced in both the ''Doctor Who'' and ''[[Star Trek (franchise)|Star Trek]]'' franchises, with {{iw|memoryalpha|Flint|an immortal human claiming to have been him}} appearing once in ''{{iw|Memory-Alpha|Star Trek: The Original Series}}'' ("{{iw|Memory-Alpha|Requiem for Methuselah (episode)|Requiem for Methuselah}}"), and {{iw|memoryalpha|Leonardo da Vinci|a holographic recreation of him}} appearing twice in ''{{iw|Memory-Alpha|Star Trek: Voyager}}'' ("{{iw|Memory-Alpha|Scorpion (episode)|Scorpion}}" and "{{iw|Memory-Alpha|Concerning Flight (episode)|Concerning Flight}}"). | |||
* In the story of ''[[Legacy (video game)|Doctor Who: Legacy]]'', the [[Seventh Doctor]], stressing the importance of preventing the [[Sontaran]]s' interference in the [[timeline]], cites Leonardo da Vinci as an example of an important person in [[human]] [[history]] whose existence is endangered, claiming that the [[Earth Empire]] would have been delayed by [[Millennium|millennia]] were it not for his [[technology]]. | |||
* In the stage play ''[[Time Fracture (stage play)|Time Fracture]]'', Leonardo was hired by the [[Time Lord]] [[Zoria]] to make a [[Temporal Disruptor]] to create the [[Time Fracture]]. However, he thought that he was making a Temporal Restorer to fix the damage and, having calibrated the device that was intended for use on [[Gallifrey]] on [[Earth]], he made a fatal mistake in his design that would make the device cause what it was intended to stop. | |||
** Leonardo was wearing an [[Eye Drive]] due to a [[Silent]] that frequently appeared in the mirror in [[Leonardo da Vinci's study|his study]]. When the Silent appeared, Leonardo would add a mark to a [[tally]] on his wall. | |||
** Leonardo's study acted as a safe place for [[Brian the Ood]]'s [[Kerb!am]] package. Brian visited the location with a number of volunteers to pick up the package. It is revealed that Brian commissioned Leonardo to paint him a painting and the work in progress is hung up above the study's fireplace. | |||
* Leonardo was played by [[Patrick Godfrey]] in the 1998 film ''Ever After'' and [[Jonathan Bailey]] in the CBBC series ''Leonardo''. | |||
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Latest revision as of 05:39, 7 February 2024
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) (TV: City of Death) was an Italian polymath known for his painting and inventions. His interests and talents covered not just art and sculpture, but also architecture, music, mathematics and engineering; he exemplified the Renaissance era.
As a painter, his most famous works included the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. (PROSE: A History of Humankind)
Biography[[edit] | [edit source]]
As his name suggests, Leonardo - "da Vinci" meaning "of Vinci", was born in Vinci, (PROSE: Cultural Firsts) Florence, in 1452. (PROSE: A History of Humankind)
Circa 1469, 17-year-old Leonardo was swept up in a Rift storm and deposited in Torchwood Three's Hub in 1967, where he met Jack Harkness. Leonardo was returned to his time using a Rift Key he had to take with him. The genius managed to disable the self-destruct mechanism and drew the inner workings of the Rift Key. The only copy of this drawing was stored in Torchwood. Leonardo helped the Torchwood team with the mathematical equation necessary to send him back. He worked it out in his head. (PROSE: Cultural Firsts)
Circa 1492, Leonardo and his then-patron the Duke of Milan were among the guests invited to the masque organised by the young Duke Giuliano of San Martino. Being caught up in the Mandragora Helix's attempt to conquer 15th century Earth, the Fourth Doctor missed this opportunity to meet Leonardo, later noting it was probably for the best. (TV: The Masque of Mandragora)
According to one account, in 1503, "old Lenny" began painting the first Mona Lisa. (COMIC: Art Attack) According to another account, circa 1505, Leonardo painted it. His model for the painting was Clara Oswald, and the Twelfth Doctor gave him critique on it. (COMIC: The Swords of Kali) Later that year, he was hired by a new patron he knew as "Captain Tancredi", in reality, Scaroth of the Jagaroth. Tancredi asked him to paint six extra copies of the Mona Lisa. (TV: City of Death) One of these copies was painted using oil pigments he borrowed from a neighbouring artist, Giuseppe di Cattivo. Unbeknownst to either of them, the minerals used in this paint would bring the painting to life in future. (TV: Mona Lisa's Revenge)
The Fourth Doctor arrived from 1979 Paris to 1505 Florence to seek clues to the plot of Count Scarlioni (another of Scaroth's time-splintered selves) to steal the Mona Lisa from the Louvre. He found the design of a helicopter among the papers in his laboratory. After being briefly captured and interrogated by Tancredi, the Doctor wrote "This is a fake" in felt pen on the boards Leonardo would paint the extra Mona Lisa copies. Before returning to the future to try to stop Count Scarlioni, he left him a message written in mirrored font. (TV: City of Death)
When Leonardo was approximately 60 years old, he used the Rift Key to return to Torchwood Three, this time around 2007. He managed to escape from the Hub into Cardiff, where he saw smart phones. Soon he was apprehended by Gwen Cooper, given retcon and sent back. This time the Torchwood team made sure that the internal workings of the Key would burn out after the travel. (PROSE: Cultural Firsts)
In 1516, Leonardo was forced to sell the Mona Lisa to King Francis, an action which the Ninth Doctor claimed "broke his heart". (COMIC: Art Attack)
Leonardo was one of the guests at Bernice Summerfield and Jason Kane's wedding in Cheldon Bonniface on 24 April 2010. (PROSE: Happy Endings)
After Leonardo's death, his soul passed through the Moon's influence on its way to Heaven and was captured by the Lunaries, who offered to give him a new body. He accepted, and in 1590 he greeted the Florentine ambassadors who had arrived on the Moon in spacecraft based on his designs. He later tried to greet Iris Wildthyme, whom he had met before, but she refused to speak to him. (PROSE: Minions of the Moon)
Undated events[[edit] | [edit source]]
The behaviour of the Fourth Doctor in the laboratory of Leonardo in 1505 implied they had already met each other. (TV: City of Death)
The Eighth Doctor recounted a tale to Alex Campbell that he took Leonardo for a trip in the TARDIS to around 0 AD, in Bethlehem, where Leonardo checked the lighting for his painting Adoration of the Magi. There, he was given the possibility to watch the nativity of Jesus Christ, but he didn't dare to. (AUDIO: Relative Dimensions)
The Monk's logbook recorded a meeting with Leonardo in which he discussed with Leonardo the principles of powered flight. (TV: "Checkmate")
River Song kept Leonardo busy whilst Helen Sinclair stole Reclining Maiden with Foal and Church at Brindisi. (AUDIO: The Doomsday Chronometer)
Legacy[[edit] | [edit source]]
The First Doctor owned a painting by Leonardo of a young handsome courtier. Ian Chesterton described the "lost" painting as "priceless". (PROSE: The Edge of Destruction)
The flying machine design was used by Astrolabus while he was fleeing from the Sixth Doctor. (COMIC: Voyager) By the late 21st century, his sketches or a copy thereof, were displayed on the wall of Professor Daniel Eldred's space museum; the TARDIS landed in front of the sketches, carrying the Second Doctor, Jamie McCrimmon, and Zoe Heriot. (TV: The Seeds of Death)
Among a long strip of business cards owned by the Sixth Doctor for various famous scientists and luminaries was one which read "da Vinci". (TV: The Two Doctors)
Grace Holloway had a print of a Leonardo sketch in her home. The Eighth Doctor, upon seeing it, noted that he had a cold when he drew it. (TV: Doctor Who)
One of the copies of the Mona Lisa painted by Leonardo came to life in the 21st century. (TV: Mona Lisa's Revenge)
In 2020, the Eleventh Doctor used Leonardo as one example of people who had dyslexia that did great things, in order to encourage Elliot Northover to continue trying. (TV: The Hungry Earth)
An airport in Rome was named after Leonardo da Vinci. (PROSE: Cultural Firsts)
Parallel universe[[edit] | [edit source]]
In a parallel universe, a version of Leonardo was a companion of that universe's Doctor. (AUDIO: A Storm of Angels, PROSE: The Innocents)
In world that never was, (TV: The Wedding of River Song) Da Vinci teased more "Code". (PROSE: Just a Minute...)
Behind the scenes[[edit] | [edit source]]
- "Da Vinci" was not a family name, and Leonardo was never known to have used a surname in the modern sense. This part of his name merely means "of Vinci", indicating that Leonardo was born in Vinci, a town near Florence. It is therefore grammatically incorrect to refer to Leonardo as simply "da Vinci", though that form of address remains in somewhat common use and has appeared in The Two Doctors, the TV movie and The Hungry Earth, as well as the title of Da Vinci's Robots.
- The title of the episode The Shakespeare Code is a play on the title of the popular Dan Brown novel The Da Vinci Code which dealt with a centuries-old conspiracy theory involving secret codes allegedly included in some of Leonardo's works. The Da Vinci Code was itself heavily inspired by the non-fiction book The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail by former Doctor Who scriptwriter Henry Lincoln.
- Leonardo da Vinci is one of very few characters to be referenced in both the Doctor Who and Star Trek franchises, with an immortal human claiming to have been him appearing once in Star Trek: The Original Series ("Requiem for Methuselah"), and a holographic recreation of him appearing twice in Star Trek: Voyager ("Scorpion" and "Concerning Flight").
- In the story of Doctor Who: Legacy, the Seventh Doctor, stressing the importance of preventing the Sontarans' interference in the timeline, cites Leonardo da Vinci as an example of an important person in human history whose existence is endangered, claiming that the Earth Empire would have been delayed by millennia were it not for his technology.
- In the stage play Time Fracture, Leonardo was hired by the Time Lord Zoria to make a Temporal Disruptor to create the Time Fracture. However, he thought that he was making a Temporal Restorer to fix the damage and, having calibrated the device that was intended for use on Gallifrey on Earth, he made a fatal mistake in his design that would make the device cause what it was intended to stop.
- Leonardo was wearing an Eye Drive due to a Silent that frequently appeared in the mirror in his study. When the Silent appeared, Leonardo would add a mark to a tally on his wall.
- Leonardo's study acted as a safe place for Brian the Ood's Kerb!am package. Brian visited the location with a number of volunteers to pick up the package. It is revealed that Brian commissioned Leonardo to paint him a painting and the work in progress is hung up above the study's fireplace.
- Leonardo was played by Patrick Godfrey in the 1998 film Ever After and Jonathan Bailey in the CBBC series Leonardo.
