The life of Leonardo Da Vinci

Borndate

Apr 15, 1452

He born in Vinci; a village near to the actual Burdeos. His real name was Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

The new Father of Leonardo Da Vinci

1457

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.

The death of his godmother

1464

This one is one of the womens of his father that loves him like a soon dies so joung and that supose a big change in the life oj Leonardo

The begining in the art

1468

His paternal grandmother, Lucía di Piero di Zoso, a ceramist next to Leonardo, was probably the person who started in the arts.Leonardo painted then a representation of a dragon spitting fire, so well realized that being Piero sold it to a merchant of Florentine art, who in turn resold it to the Duke of Milan.

Training in Verrocchio's workshop

1468

At the end of 1468, although Leonardo was registered as a resident of the municipality of Vinci, he traveled very often to Florence, where his father worked.

Paintings of 1480

1480

In the 1480s, Leonardo received two very important commissions and commenced another work that was of ground-breaking importance in terms of composition. Two of the three were never finished, and the third took so long that it was subject to lengthy negotiations over completion and payment.

In Milan and at the service of Ludovico Sforza

1482

In 1481 the monastery of San Donato commissioned the Adoration of the Magi, but Leonardo never finished this painting, probably disappointed or humiliated for not having been chosen by Pope Sixtus IV to decorate the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican Apostolic Palace in Rome

The last supper

1490

Leonardo's most famous painting of the 1490s is The Last Supper, commissioned for the refectory of the Convent of Santa Maria della Grazie in Milan. It represents the last meal shared by Jesus with his disciples before his capture and death,

Matematics studios

1490

In the 1490s he studied mathematics under Luca Pacioli and prepared a series of drawings of regular solids in a skeletal form to be engraved as plates for Pacioli's book De divina

From Venice to Florence

1499

In March 1499, Leonardo worked as an architect and military engineer for the Venetians who wanted to build protections in their city.9 16 For this reason, he developed systems to defend the city from a possible naval attack by the Turks.

Engineering and inventions

1499

During his lifetime, Leonardo was valued as an engineer. In a letter to Ludovico il Moro, he wrote that he could create all sorts of machines both for the protection of a city and for siege. When he fled to Venice in 1499, he found employment as an engineer and devised a system of moveable barricades to protect the city from attack.

The bridge

1502

In 1502, Leonardo produced a drawing of a single span 720-foot (220 m) bridge as part of a civil engineering project for Ottoman Sultan Beyazid II of Constantinople. The bridge was intended to span an inlet at the mouth of the Bosporus known as the Golden Horn.

La Gioconda

1503

La Gioconda (La Joconde in French) or Mona Lisa, is a pictorial work of the Italian Renaissance polymath Leonardo da Vinci. It was acquired by King Francis I of France at the beginning of the 16th century and has since been owned by the French State.

The Battle of Anghiara

1505

Leonardo's The Battle of Anghiara was a fresco commissioned in 1505 for the Salone dei Cinquecento (Hall of the Five Hundred) in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Its central scene depicted four men riding raging war horses engaged in a battle for possession of a standard, at the Battle of Anghiari in 1440.

Anatomy studiesc

1517

The content of his journals suggest that he was planning a series of treatises to be published on a variety of subjects. A coherent treatise on anatomy was said to have been observed during a visit by Cardinal Louis 'D' Aragon's secretary in 1517.