Renaissance Polymath
On JudgeMarket, Leonardo da Vinci trades at the top band the market reserves for civilizational polymaths — a reference asset rarely challenged in either direction. The valuation captures something no single-domain figure can match: the Mona Lisa and Last Supper alone put him in the top tier of painters, and the notebooks add anatomy, engineering, hydraulics, and proto-aviation on top. The market pays a rare cross-domain premium, because genuine multi-discipline excellence is one of the scarcest assets it prices. What caps the ceiling is output scarcity: fewer than twenty finished paintings, many projects abandoned — a "what could have been" discount. Compared to Isaac Newton, who trades in a similar tier on pure scientific revolution, Leonardo carries broader cultural beta. Albert Einstein matches on iconography; Pablo Picasso prices below on output scale. Volatility is near zero: Leonardo is the definition of a long-duration blue-chip.
