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Leonardo was a renassance man. He was an Italian polymath: painter, sculptor, architect, musician, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist and writer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived. He had many and diverse fields of arts and sciences. He died on May 2, 1519.
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"On April 25, 1483 Leonardo and the brothers Ambrogio and Evangelista de Predis were commissioned by the Milanese Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception to paint a work celebrating the Immaculate Conception for their new chapel."-Wikipedia
"Three paintings were stipulated, a central Virgin and Child and two side panels with angels, described only in the earlier contract with del Maino."-Wikipedia
There are two versions of the painting, Louvre and London version. -
It is accompanied by notes based on work by Vitruvius. The drawing displays a male figure with his arms and legs apart and in a circle and square.
"The drawing is based on the correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry described[4] by the ancient Roman architect Vitruvius in Book III of his treatise De Architectura."-Wikipedia -
Leonardo may have been an artist and a scientist, but he was also valued as an inventor. He had different ideas for protecting the city and diverting the flow of the Arno River. Since he was so interested in the flight of birds, Leonardo drew up the plans of a "hanglider" to simulate the flight of birds.
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One of Leonardo's most distinct creations. The painting represents the last meal shared by Jesus with his disciples before his capture and death.
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Leonardo Da Vinci began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503 or 1504 in Italy.Giorgio Vasari qouates "...after he had lingered over it four years, left it unfinished...."He is thought to have continued to work on Mona Lisa for three years after he moved to France and to have finished it shortly before he died in 1519.Leonardo took the painting from Italy to France in 1516 when King François I invited the painter to work at the Clos Lucé near the king's castle in Amboise.
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Leonardo ended up learning anatomy due to his apprenticeship. Andrea del Verrocchio insisted it.
"As a successful artist, he was given permission to dissect human corpses at the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova in Florence and later at hospitals in Milan and Rome."-Wikipedia Leonardo also dissected different animals and compared them to the human anatomy. -
In 1506, Leonardo took on another pupil, Count Francesco Melzi, the son of a Lombard aristocrat, who is considered to have been his favourite student.He travelled to France with Leonardo, and remained with him until the latter's death.Upon Leonardo's death, Melzi inherited the artistic and scientific works, manuscripts, and collections of Leonardo, and faithfully administered the estate.
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Leonardo died at Clos Lucé.
