ByBrittney. According to scientists, a Neanderthal made the first known artwork on Earth more than 65,000 years ago when he stroked onto the wall of a cave using red ochre. A variety of species have expressed themselves through art throughout history, an oddity widely held to be unique to modern humans.

Who was the inventor of art?

In 1452, Leonardo da Vinci was born in the hills of Italy. He would later become a painter, scientist, inventor, musician and leading figure in Europe. He is known as the prime example of a “Renaissance man,” and excelled at everything related to science and the arts.

Who is the father of art?

Giorgio Vasari has been variously called the father of art history, the inventor of artistic biography, and the author of “the Bible of the Italian Renaissance”—a little book called The Lives of the Artists.