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Created his first dated of an Arno landscape
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First well known painting, Baptism of Christ, painted by Verrocchio and his assistants; work finished by Leonardo, the angle kneeling and the background.
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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.
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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.
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Clay model for the Great Horse finished and displayed; Leonardo becoems famous throughout Italy. Destroyed by the French during times of war
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After a 20 year battle da Vinci painted a second painting
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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.
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It is a mixture of Leonardos observations and theories on Astronomy, the properties of water, rocks, and fossils; air and celestial light
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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
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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
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Goes to France at the request of King Francois I
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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.
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