LEONARDO DA VINCI

Work, Life and Study

BIOGRAPHY

LEONARDO DA VINCI

BIOGRAPHY

• Name : Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

• Birth : April 15, 1452

• Death : May 2 1519

• Birth place : Anchiano, near Vinci, Republic of Florence

• Occupation : painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer

VERROCCHIO'S WORKSHOP ( 1 4 6 6 – 1 4 7 6 )

• At the age of 14, Verrocchio was apprenticed By Leonardo.

• Leonardo would have been exposed to both theoretical training and a vast range of technical skills including drafting, chemistry, metallurgy, metal working, plaster casting, leather working, mechanics and carpentry as well as the artistic skills of drawing, painting, sculpting and modeling.

The Baptism of Christ(1472–1475) by Verrocchio and Leonardo

• By 1472, at the age of twenty, Leonardo qualified as a master in the Guild of St Luke, the guild of artists and doctors of medicine

Leonardo's earliest known drawing, the Arno Valley (1473)

TIMELINE OF EVENTS1452 - Leonardo is born on April 15 in the village of Anchiano, near the town of Vinci.

1467 - At 15 Leonardo is sent to Florence to work as apprentice to Andrea De Verrocchio.

1472 - 20 year-old Leonardo is accepted into the painters' guild of Florence.

1476 - Leonardo is accused of sodomy; he is publicly humiliated although the charges are later dropped.

1478 - The Annunciation is painted. The work, initially credited to Da Vinci, is now believed to have been painted by Lorenzo di Credi.

1481 - Leonardo begins work on The Adoration of the Magi, an altarpiece for the Monastery of San Donato at Scopeto. He sketches many studies.

1482 - Leonardo moves to Milan to work in the service of the city's duke, Ludovico Sforza. He gains the title of "painter and engineer of the duke”.

1483 - Leonardo paints the Virgin of the Rocks.

1485 - Leonardo paints Lady with an Ermine.

1495 - Leonardo begins work on The Last Supper in the refectory of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.

1498 - The Last Supper is completed.

1499 - With the duke Ludovico Sforza'a fall from power, Da Vinci leaves Milan and spends a short time in Venice.

1500 - Leonardo begins painting the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, a project that he only finishes after 10 years.

1500 - Leonardo returns to Florence.

1502 - Leonardo begins work as senior military architect and general engineer for Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI.

1503 - Leonardo is commissioned to paint the Mona Lisa.

1503 - Leonardo is commission to paint a mural for the council hall in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio, which is to be the Battle of Anghiari, a work that would remain unfinished.

1515 - Leonardo paints St. John the Baptist.

1516 - The king of France invites Leonardo to come work for him.

1519 - May 2, Leonardo dies in France.

HIS ART

• Completed 1503–

1519

• One of Leonardo's

most famous

paintings.

• Also known as • La Gioconda or • La Joconde, or • Portrait of Lisa

Gherardini, • Wife of Francesco

del Giocondo

THE MONA LISA

• Consists of

two

identical

paintings

• Both at two

locations.

THE VIRGIN ON THE ROCK

(AKA Madonna on the Rocks)

LOUVRE VERSION (1483-1486) LONDON VERSION (1495-1508)

• Completed 1495–1498• Depicts Jesus Christ's last

supper.• Underwent many restorations

THE LAST SUPPER

OTHER FAMOUS ART

Self Portrait Madonna of the Carnation1475-78

The Virgin and Child with St. Anne1508–17

OTHER FAMOUS ART

Annunciation – Around 1472

INVENTIONS

Conceptual Ideas/inventions• Helicopter, • Parachute, • Calculator, • Tank, • Solar power, • A basic theory of plate tectonics.

He also greatly improved the understanding of• Hydrodynamics, • Astronomy, • Anatomy, • optics

FLYING MACHINE

STEAM CANNON (ARCHITONNERRE)

THE AERIAL SCREW / HELICOPTER

ARMOURED VEHICLE (THE TANK) AND SCYTHED CHARIOT

GIANT CROSSBOW

GUN ARRAY

TREADMILL MACHINE GUN

Doing Da Vinci

DA VINCI SECRETS

Conspiracies

Member of the Secret Society known as the PRIORY OF SION

Expert at Ciphers & Encryption.

Believed to have left clues in his artworks. e.g.: MONA LISA, LAST SUPPER

Original Painting of the Last Supper

• The most significant clue left by Leonardo, according to Brown, is that the disciple usually identified as John in the picture is actually Mary Magdalene.• There were claims that da Vinci's The Last Supper contains a hidden image of a woman holding a child.

GREATEST MYSTERIES

• Right eye contains the letters LV• Left eye contains Symbols which are yet to be determined

MONA LISA

HOLY BLOOD, HOLY GRAIL written by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln

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