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Leonardo da Vinci was born in Vinci, Italy, as a love child to a landowner and a peasant girl.
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At the age of 14, he began learning from an artist named Andrea De Verrocchio.
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Leonardo is now a master artist who works in the Guild of Saint Luke. He also began establishing his own workshop while getting paid from his wealthy clients.
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Leonardo began to work on The Adoration of the Magi which was an altarpiece for the Monastery of San Donato at Scopeto.
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During this time, Leonardo moves to Milan. Lorenzo de’ Medici commissioned Leonardo to create a silver lyre for the Duke of Milan as a gesture of peace. When Leonardo finished the lyre, he wrote the Duke a letter describing his engineering and artistic talents and how they would do a great service in his court.
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This lady was identified as Cecilia Gallerani. This painting is a very famous painting is an oil painting.
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The drawing is based on the correlations of ideal human proportions.
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After sending the Duke of Milan letters, Leonardo was asked to do many great projects. During this period of his life, Leonardo painted the famous “The Last Supper.”
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Leonardo decorates the walls and ceiling of the Sala delle Asse. He also made his first attempts at planning a flying machine around this time.
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Leonardo sketched many military weapons that were way ahead of his time.
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Leonardo begins work as senior military architect and general engineer for Cesare Borgia.
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The Mona Lisa is Leonardo’s most popular painting. Historians do not know who this woman is in the painting.
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In the winter, Leonardo da Vinci was present at the death of an old man. He then studied his body and made diagrams of each part of the body.
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The King of France invites Leonardo to come work for him.
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He died in Amboise, France at the age of 53. He was buried in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert in the castle of Amboise.
