He was a brilliant artist and inventor, and he was looking for work.

So, 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci pulled together his resume.

Maybe I’m oversimplifying. I don’t think there was such a thing as a resume then, but sometime between 1482 and 1484, when he was in his early 30s, da Vinci wrote a one-page letter that served as a job application.

The pos…