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Apr 15, 1452
Birth...
Leonardo is born in Vinci, a small village in Italy. -
Jul 30, 1467
Leonardo moves to Florence...
Leonardo moves to Florence because his paternal grandfather died and enters the shop of Andrea Verrocchio. -
Jul 30, 1472
Leonardo joins the Florentine Guild of Artists.
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Jul 30, 1481
Leonardo paints The Adoration of the Magi...
Leonardo paints The Adoration of the Magi, an altarpiece for the Monastery of San Donato at Scopeto, which is to remain unfinished. -
Jul 30, 1482
Leonardo moves to Milan...
Leonardo travels to Milan and enters the rein of Ludovico Sforza, ruler of the city, presenting himself as engineer, architect, sculptor and painter. -
Jul 30, 1483
Leonardo paints Virgin of the rocks..
Leonardo paints the Louvre version of Virgin of the Rocks. -
Jul 30, 1485
Leonardo paints Lady with an Ermine
Leonardo paints Lady with an Ermine -
Jul 30, 1495
Leonardo begins work on The Last Supper...
Leonardo begins work on The Last Supper at the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, which is finished two years later. -
Jul 30, 1500
Leonardo begins painting the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne...
Leonardo begins painting the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, which is finished ten years later. -
Jul 30, 1502
Leonardo is appointed military engineer...
Leonardo is appointed military engineer for Cesare Borgia and placed in charge of inspecting Borgia's fortresses in Romagna. -
Jul 30, 1503
1503 Leonardo begins painting the Mona Lisa
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Jul 30, 1504
Raphael arrives in Florence and visits Leonardo's studio.
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Jul 30, 1506
Leonardo paints the Virgin of the Rocks 2
Leonardo paints the London National Gallery version of Virgin of the Rocks. -
Jul 30, 1507
Leonardo is appointed painter and engineer...
Leonardo is appointed painter and engineer at the court of Louis XII in France. -
Jul 30, 1507
Leonardo Finishes mona lisa
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Jul 30, 1513
Leonardo settles in Rome...
Leonardo settles in Rome under the patronage of Giuliano de Medici. -
Jul 30, 1514
Leonardo Moves house...
Leonardo accepts the patronage of Francois I of France and moves into the manor house of Cloux near Amboise. He paints the only known authentic likeness of himself, inscribed by a later hand: "Leonardo da Vinci, portrait of himself as an old man." -
Jul 30, 1515
Leonardo paints St. John the Baptist.
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May 2, 1519
Leonardo dies...
Leonardo dies at the age of sixty-seven at the manor of Cloux near Amboise. -
Jul 30, 1537
Francois l displays Mona Lisa...
Francois I displays the Mona Lisa in a semi-public art gallery at Fontainebleau, his favorite chateau. -
Jul 30, 1550
Giorgio Vasari publishes the first biography...
Giorgio Vasari publishes the earliest known biography of Leonardo da Vinci, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, thirty-one years after Leonardo's death. -
The Louvre Museum opens.
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Mona Lisa hung in Napoleons Bedroom...
The Mona Lisa is hung in Napoleon Bonapart's bedroom in the Tuileries. -
The Mona Lisa is installed in the Louvre.
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Vincenzo Perugia is born...
Vincenzo Perugia is born in Dumenza, a locality in northern Italy near Lake Como. -
Perugia move to Paris and works at Louvre
Perugia moves to a rooming house at 5 rue de l'Hopital-Saint-Louis in Paris. He works briefly as a carpenter at the Louvre. -
Mona Lisa disappears and manager...
The Director of the National Museums, Théophile Homolle, on vacation when the Mona Lisa disappears, laughs at the possibility of theft from the Louvre: "You might as well pretend that one could steal the towers of Notre Dame!" -
The theft of Mona Lisa is discovered.
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Géry Piéret delivers a statue stolen from the Louvre...
éry Piéret delivers a statue stolen from the Louvre to the offices of the Paris-Journal. -
Paris-Journal prints the story...
Paris-Journal prints the story that gets other two stolen statues. -
French detectives arrest
French detectives make their only arrest in the case -Guillaume Apollinaire. Apollinaire blames Pablo Picasso. Picasso is brought in for questioning and released. -
Apollinaire is released.
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Paris-Journal reports...
Paris-Journal reports that Apollinaire was described by La Sureté as "the chief of an international gang that has come to France to rifle our museums." -
Homolle is forced to quit...
Following a report to the French Cabinet, Homolle is forced to quit being a museum director. -
The still-missing Mona Lisa is honored...
The still-missing Mona Lisa is honored in a Lent parade in Paris with a float showing Mona Lisa taking off in an airplane. -
Alfredo Geri places an ad in Italian newspapers...
Florentine antique dealer, Alfredo Geri, prepares an exhibition and places an ad in several Italian newspapers stating that he is "a buyer at good prices of art objects of every sort." -
Geri recieves a letter...
Geri receives a letter with a Paris postmark in response to ad, from a man called "Leonardo Vincenzo," who says he has the Mona Lisa and wants to restore the painting to Italy. -
Vencenzo Perugia arrives...
Vencenzo Perugia (a.k.a. Leonardo Vincenzo) arrives at Geri's shop in Florence -
Perugia gets arrested...
Geri and Giovanni Poggi, director of the Uffizi, meet Perugia in his hotel room. Perugia gets the Mona lisa from a fake floor case. Perugia is immediately arrested. -
The Mona Lisa is...
The Mona Lisa is displayed at Uffizi, then is sent on a tour of the museums of Italy before being sent back to France. -
Mona Lisa returns to Paris in a train
Mona Lisa returns to Paris in a special compartment by train. -
Mona Lisa is returned to her new place in the Louvre
Mona Lisa is returned to her new place in the Louvre -
Perugia is placed on trial...
Perugia is placed on trial in Florence, where he gains popularity as a hero for returning Mona Lisa. He is given a tiny sentence and released almost immediately. -
Mona Lisa visits the United States...
Mona Lisa visits the United States for seven weeks -first at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and then at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is seen by one million six-hundred-thousand visitors. -
Mona Lisa travels to the Tokyo...
Mona Lisa travels to the Tokyo National Museum and then to the Pushkin Museum in Moscow, where she is seen by more than 2 million viewers.