Leonardo Da Vinci

Born

Apr 15, 1452

Leonardo was born on 15 April 1452 (Old Style), "at the third hour of the night"[nb 4] in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, in the lower valley of the Arno river in the territory of the Medici-ruled Republic of Florence.

Leonardo Da Vinci

Period: Apr 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519

Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci born on 15 April 1452 in Vinci, Republic of Florence (present-day Italy)
And died on 2 May 1519 (aged 67) in Amboise, Kingdom of France
He known for diverse fields of the arts and sciences
Notable work: Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Vitruvian Man, Lady with an Ermine.
His style was high Renaissance

Andrea del Verrocchio

Jul 24, 1466

He was apprenticed to the sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence at age 14 or 15 years.

Brotherhood of San Lucas

Sep 28, 1472

He became a member of the Brotherhood of San Lucas, at the age of 20.

He was accused and acquitted.

Jun 26, 1474

It was documented a few years later after being accused and acquitted of sodomy in Florence, when he was 22 .

he reached the Masters

Mar 14, 1478

He remained with Verrocchio until he reached the Masters in 1478. During that time , faced his first commissioned work , " The Adoration of the Magi " Florence for San Donato a Scopeto monastery.

Bronze equestrian statue

Jan 1, 1490

He worked in a bronze equestrian statue honoring the founder Francesco Sforza dynasty for 12 years, but the war interfered in the last part and the project remained unfinished .

He began chronicling his ideas.

Feb 7, 1490

He began chronicling his ideas about painting, architecture , mechanics and human anatomy. These notebooks contain powerful ideas , including plans for a " flying machine " , a bicycle and drawings of a fetus in the womb and the human skeleton.

The Last Supper "

Dec 31, 1498

" The Last Supper " by Leonardo , where he worked between 1492-1498 according to most accounts , was painted on the dining room wall of the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.

Mona Lisa

Dec 31, 1506

The "Mona Lisa " is the best known work of Da Vinci and some adj historians argue that artistic achievement is its mayor.
It is believed that completing it was sometime between 1505 and 1507, but there are indications that Da Vinci continued working on it trying to achieve perfection.

self-portrait

Dec 31, 1510

The work identified as " self-portrait " is believed to be a self-portrait of Da Vinci 1510, approximately when was about 60 years.

The French governor

Dec 31, 1516

He left Italy 1516, when the French governor , Francisco I, offered him the opportunity to draw and paint at their own pace living in Cloux Castle , in a cottage near Aboise , France.

Dead

May 2, 1519

Leonardo died at Clos Lucé, on 2 May 1519.
Some 20 years after Leonardo's death, Francis was reported by the goldsmith and sculptor Benvenuto Cellini as saying: "There had never been another man born in the world who knew as much as Leonardo, not so much about painting, sculpture and architecture, as that he was a very great philosopher."