Milan: Leonardo da Vinci and Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II arcade.

Left and top right: Monument to Leonardo da Vinci. “Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (1452–1519) was an Italian Renaissance polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer. His genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal. Leonardo has often been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man, a man of ‘unquenchable curiosity’ and ‘feverishly inventive imagination’. (Much of his earlier working life was spent in the service of Ludovico il Moro in Milan.)”

Bottom right: Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II arcade. “One of the world’s oldest shopping malls. Housed within a four-story double arcade in central Milan, the Galleria is named after Vittorio Emanuele II, the first king of the Kingdom of Italy. It was designed in 1861 and built by Giuseppe Mengoni between 1865 and 1877.”