Leonardo da vinci

Birth of Leonardo da Vinci

Apr 15, 1452

was born on Saturday, April 15, 1452. It was a Florentine polymath of the Italian Renaissance. He was at the same time painter, anatomist, architect, paleontologist, 3 artist, botanist, scientist, writer, sculptor, philosopher, engineer, inventor, musician, poet and urban planner.

his parents when he was 5 years old

1464

In 1457, when Leonardo was five years old, his mother married Antonio di Piero Buti of the Vacca da Vinci, a local peasant, with whom he had five children. He was then welcomed into the house of his father's family in the town of Vinci. Meanwhile, the father had married a sixteen-year-old girl from a wealthy family in Florence, Albiera degli Amadori. As she had no children, she turned her affections to Leonardo, but died very young due to complications of childbirth, in 1464.

formation of Leonardo da Vinci in painting

1469

From 1469, Leonardo entered as an apprentice to one of the most prestigious art workshops under the teaching of Andrea del Verrocchio, to whom he owes part of his excellent multidisciplinary training, in which he approaches other artists such as Sandro Botticelli, Perugino and Domenico Ghirlandaio

the knowledge of his art

1472

In 1472, at the age of twenty, he appeared registered in the Red Book of the Guild of San Lucas, the guild of artists and doctors of medicine, which in Florence was grouped under the name of "Campagnia de pittori". From this period derives one of his first known works, the Landscape of the Valley of the Arno or Landscape of Santa Maria della Neve (1473), a drawing made with pen and ink.This is how he began his career as a painter with works such as The Annunciation (1472-1475).

his first picture

1476

In the year 1476, he is always mentioned as Verrocchio's assistant, since, even after his father helped him to have his own workshop, he continued to collaborate with Verrocchio because he professed a great affection for him. During this period, He received personal commissions and painted his first painting, The Virgin of the Carnation (1476).

ends with his teacher

1478

Leonardo also stood out as an engineer. In 1478, he offered to build the octagonal church of San Juan de Florencia. In that year Leonardo was 26 years old, and it was when he left his teacher's side after having excelled brilliantly in all disciplines. In this way he became an independent master painter.

your little conflict with the picture of the Virgin of the Rocks

1483

Leonardo painted the Virgin of the Rocks (1483-1486) for the confraternity of the Immaculate Conception, which would go to the San Francesco el Grande chapel in Milan. This painting was the source of a conflict between the author and the owners that lasted several years. Leonardo obtained the right to copy the work, but later a legal problem began with this. The problem was not solved until there were judicial decisions and the intervention of some friends, ending with two versions of the work.

his academy the last dinner and the roof of the castle of the sforza

1490

1490 created an academy that bore his name, in which for a few years he taught his knowledge, writing down all his research in small treatises. He painted the fresco of The Last Supper (1494-1498) for the Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie.In 1496 Luca Pacioli arrived in Milan and established a great friendship with Leonardo, who made for him the tables that were engraved in his work The Divine proportions. A little later, in 1498, he built the roof of the Sforza castle.

leonardo as an engineer

Jun 21, 1493

Leonardo's main occupation thereafter was that of engineer, following the tradition of the engineers who preceded him. Leonardo appeared on the list of Sforza engineers and when he was sent to Pavia, on June 21, 1493, he did so under the title of "ingéniarius ducalis"

The conquest of Louis XII and the flight of Leonardo

1499

In 1499 the troops of Luis XII of France conquered the Duchy of Milan. On October 6, Luis XII entered the city. On December 14, Leonardo deposited 600 florins at the Santa Maria Nuova Hospital in Florence, which acted as a bank. The unexpected return of Ludovico Sforza modified his projects and fled Milan with his assistant Salai and the mathematician Luca Pacioli.

he returned to Venice

1500

He returned to Venice in April 1500 to remain there for a couple of months after having been in Mantua in the company of the mathematical friar Luca Pacioli. In Mantua he stood out for a portrait he made of Isabel de Este.

The Virgin and the Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist

1501

Leonardo continued in a great research. In 1501, he received in the convent of the Blessed Annunziata the approval to make a preparatory sketch of what would be the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist,

the death of her father and the monna lisa

1503

In 1504, he returned to work in Milan His father died on July 9 The same year, Leonardo performed anatomical studies and tried to classify his innumerable notes. It is also the time when he began to work at La Gioconda (1503-1506, and later 1510-1515), a work usually considered as a portrait of Lisa Gherardini or, by the name of married, Monna Lisa del Giocondo.

last years in france

1515

the new king of France, Francisco I, reconquered Milan after winning the battle of Marignan In November of the same year, Leonardo designed a new project on the layout of the Medici neighborhood in Florence. On December 19, he was present at the meeting between Francis I and Pope Leo X held in Bologna. Francisco I entrusted Leonardo with a mechanical lion that could walk and with the detail that the chest was opened to show the fleur de lis

Leonardo leaves France

1516

In 1516 he left for France along with his assistant, the painter Francesco Melzi, and also with Salai who accompanied them to Milan.His new patron and protector, the King of France Francis I, installed them in the house where he lived in his home. childhood, the castle of Clos-Lucé, near the castle of Amboise. He was the "first painter, first engineer and first architect of the king"

death of leonardo da vinci

Apr 23, 1519

On April 23, 1519, Leonardo, ill for several months, wrote his will before a notary of Amboise. He asked a priest to confess and receive extreme unction.18 He died on May 2, 1519.9 in Cloux, at the age of 67. Tradition says that he died in the arms of Francisco I, but that is probably a lie