That's true. In Greek technology is a combined word from the word "τέχνη" (techni) which means art and "λόγος" (logos) which means spoken or written word and the whole word "τεχνολογία" (technologia) means the study on the methods that are used in application of technical knowledge. Da Vinci himself was both an artist and an inventor (and a great one, way ahead of his time).
That is pretty interesting. And you're right. Da Vinci was both an intellect and a creative. He was quite a force. I was actually watching a documentary on him the other day. There's a painting he did or helped with (can't remember now) that showed an angel coming to Mary to tell her that she'll give birth to Jesus and these scientists looked at the painting under an x-ray that they use for paintings and found that the angel disappears from the image when looked by an x-ray. They don't know what paint he used or anything. It's mind-blowing.