Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo was born in the village of Vinci

Apr 15, 1452

Leonardo da Vinci's Life

Period: Apr 15, 1452 to May 2, 1519

Moves into Verrocchio's workshop in Florence

May 21, 1462

Arno landscape

Aug 5, 1473

Created his first dated of an Arno landscape

Baptism of Christ

Sep 20, 1476

First well known painting, Baptism of Christ, painted by Verrocchio and his assistants; work finished by Leonardo, the angle kneeling and the background.

The Annunciation

Dec 1, 1478

Only six inches high and twenty- three inches long. Gabriel telling the young Mary that she is to fullfill the biblical prophesy and bear a son named Jesus.

St. Jerome

Jan 1, 1480

Adoration of the Magi

Feb 10, 1481

Begins Lady with an Ermine

May 7, 1484

Louvre version of the Virgin of the Rocks

Apr 14, 1486

Monks rejected the first painting because they wanted to focus atttention on the Virgin and he ( Leonardo)decided to focus on Jesus and St. John as babies.

Madonna

Mar 5, 1490

Great Horse

Jun 12, 1493

Clay model for the Great Horse finished and displayed; Leonardo becoems famous throughout Italy. Destroyed by the French during times of war

London Virgin of the Rocks

Dec 31, 1495

After a 20 year battle da Vinci painted a second painting

The Last Supper

Apr 1, 1497

da Vinvi works as a military engineer for Cesare Borgia

Jun 4, 1503

Leonardo designed new multiple- shot cannons and engines of war. He drew up plans for several weapons which held a striking resemblance to those used during American Civil War.

Battle of Anghiria

Sep 15, 1503

Mona Lisa

Jun 8, 1504

Codex Leicester

Jul 10, 1506

It is a mixture of Leonardos observations and theories on Astronomy, the properties of water, rocks, and fossils; air and celestial light

Begins dissections of humans

Dec 15, 1507

Leonardo dissected birds, horses, cows, monkeys, and humans but only with the intent of discovering the architecture and mechanism of the body; apparance, movement, and function

Draws the Deluge

Aug 13, 1514

with the troublesome thoughts of unfinished projects and hours wasted on seemingly dead-end theories, Leonardo began to writed down descriptions of natural destructive events which ended in the deluge

France

Sep 25, 1514

Goes to France at the request of King Francois I

Paints St. John the Baptist

May 20, 1516

Leonardo's last painting, the dark and mystical work called St. John the Baptist shows the figure of the saint emerging from a dramtically smoky atmosphere.

da Vinci dies

May 2, 1519