Leonardo da Vinci

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  • Apr 15, 1452

    BORN

    BORN
    15 April 1452 Anchiano Italia.
  • 1466

    ACTIVITIES

    ACTIVITIES
    The year 1466 begins to practice various activities in the workshop of a sculptor named Andrea del Verrocchio. There he begins to paint, sculpt and design.
  • 1472

    WORKSHOP OF PAINTING AND ESCULTURE

    WORKSHOP OF PAINTING AND ESCULTURE
    He was accepted in the Painters Guild of Florence in 1472 and opened his own painting and sculpture workshop, so began his fame.
  • 1478

    1478

    1478
    Paint the great unfinished altarpiece of the Adoration of the Kings (Gallery of the Uffizi).
  • 1481

    1481

    1481
    He receives an important commission for the Altar of the Church of San Donato de Scopeto, through mediation again of his father, Ser Piero, Leonardo should paint "The Adoration of the Magi" work that leaves unfinished. In the same way it would be the work titled "San Jerónimo", that at the moment is in the Vatican Pinacoteca, also destined to the Altar of a Church.
  • 1482

    HE APPEARED

    HE APPEARED
    In 1482 he appeared before the mighty Ludovico Sforza.
  • 1483

    HIS WORK

    HIS WORK
    He was hired in 1483 by the Brotherhood of the Immaculate Conception to make a painting for the Church of San Francisco.
  • 1495

    1495

    1495
    Starts in the residence of the Sforza the decoration of the Camerini.
  • 1496

    TREATISE

    TREATISE
    It was especially fruitful his friendship with the mathematician Luca Pacioli, Franciscan friar who towards 1496 concluded his treatise of the Divine Proportion, illustrated by Leonardo.
  • 1498

    MURAL PAINTING

    MURAL PAINTING
    Towards 1498 Leonardo finished a mural painting, a modest commission for the refectory of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria Dalle Grazie, which would become his definitive pictorial consecration: the Last Supper.
  • 1499

    VENECE

    VENECE
    At the end of 1499 the French entered Milan and Leonardo left the city accompanied by Pacioli and settled in the House of his admirer the Marquise Isabel de Este, arrived in Venice.
  • 1504

    1504

    1504
    Leonardo's father died in June of that year.
  • 1513

    1513

    1513
    In 1511 Charles d 'Amboise dies and the French are expelled from Milan. For what Leonardo would move to Rome, who would now be his patron is Giuliano de Médicis brother of Pope Leo X, and he works as a painter for Baldassare Turini, who was treasurer of the pope.
  • 1516

    1516

    1516
    Giuliano de Médicis dies in March and again Leonardo would be without his patron and towards the winter of 1516-1517 he would move to France where the French king Francisco grants him the position of chamber painter. Leonardo Da Vinci would live in Cloux and would perform scientific experiments, architectural projects as well as irrigation.
  • 1519

    1519

    1519
    Leonardo Da Vinci dies on May 2 in Cloux is assumed in the presence of the French King Francis I, and is buried in the Church of Saint Florentin in Amboise according to his wish.