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1452
Birth
Leonardo Da Vinci was born the 15th of april, 1452 -
1452
Birth place
He was born in Florencia, Italy -
1457
Family
His father and his mother separeted
His father got married 4 times more and he gave Leonardo 10 more brothers
His father never had considered him legally
He started his carrer thanks to his grandmother
His mother was por and slave -
1466
Education
Young Leonardo received little formal education beyong basic Reading, writing and mathematics instruction, but his artistic talents were evident from an early age
When he was 14 years old he received classes of art from Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence -
1472
Professional life
When he was 20 years old he got a degree as a master artist and he stablished his own workshop
However, he continued to collaborate with his teacher for an additional five years -
1476
Private life
They discovered that Leonardo da vinci was homosexual and on that age that was a crime by exile or even death -
1478
Profession
He was painter, sculptor, architect, inventor, military engineer and draftsman
On this year he became an independent master -
1483
Painting techniques
Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his use of two painting techniques:
Chiaroscuro: a contrast between darkness and light that gave a three-dimensionality to da Vinci’s figures.
Sfumato: a technique in which subtle gradations His painting “Virgin of the Rocks,” begun in 1483, is a classic example of both of these techniques -
1485
Students
He had lots of student but the most important ones were Pontorno, Francesco Melzi, Andrea Solari and Cesare da Sesto -
1495
"The last supper"
It is one of the most famous works he did
Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan commissioned him to paint it on the back Wall of the dining hall inside the monastery of Milan´s Santa Maria Delle Grazie -
1495
Writings
Besides these his works of art, he wrote an endless number of revolutionary ideas (withdrawals in 20 volumes) that could not be developed until several centuries later, any for the technical existing limitations in this epoch and others for small incongruities in his sketches that there was disabling the functioning of his inventions -
1497
Inventions
Da Vinci appeared to prophesy the future with his sketches of machines resembling a bycivle and a helicopter. Perhaps his most well known "invention" is a "flying machine" wich is based on the physiology of a bat -
1499
Sculptures
Ludovico Sforza also tasked da Vinci with sculpting a 16-foot-tall bronze equestrian statue of his father and founder of the family dynasty, Francesco Sforza -
1503
"la Gioconda"
It was painted by Leonardo da Vinci and is one of his most famous Works
It is also known as "La Mona Lisa"
You can find it in the Louvre museum (Paris)
It is nealy,worth 715.2 euros -
1519
Death
He died the 2nd of May in 1519
