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At age fourteen Leonardo DaVinci was apprenticed by one of the best artist at the time. His name was Andrea di Cione and he owned a shop that was "One of the Finest in Florence."
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IN 1472 Da Vinci qualified as a master in Guild of St. Luke
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Da Vinci used a pen and ink to draw his first known art of the Arno Valley.
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In 1476 Leonardo started his professional life, but was caught with sodomy and had no recorded work or even where he was. In 1478 he was commissioned to paint the alter for the Chapel of St. Bernard.
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In 1476 Leonardo DaVinci was caught with three young men and was charged with sodomy but he was acquitted, or freed from the charge.
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Da Vinci not only painted and made sculptures, but also studied the human body. In 1485 Da Vinci finished his work on the Vitruvian man which started his interist in the human body.
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In 1982, Duke of Milan Ludovico il Moro Leonardo commisioned DaVinci's horse sculpture. In 1492, DaVinci Finished a horse sculpture in MIlan.
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Leonardo made sketches for a flying machine in 1492, which shows he was way ahead of his time.
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In 1499 Da Vinci moved to Venice and found jobs in engineering which he made barricades which kept the city from being attacked. After that Da Vinci started making sketches of new engineering inventions which were way ahead of his time.
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Since Da Vinci was an artists he was allowed to disect human bodies at the Hospital of Santa Maria Nuova and in Milan and Rome. He collabrated in his studies with a doctor named Marcantonio della Torre. Which led to over 200 pages of drawings and notes about the human body.
