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Leonardo is born near the Tuscan town of Vinci
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Leo moves to his grandparents
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Moves to Florence with his dad to become and appreciate
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Leonardo paints angel in Verrocchio’s Baptism of Christ (left hand corner of painting); he is also accepted into the Painters’ Guild that year.
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Leonardo makes his Landscape Drawing, his oldest surviving drawing
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Leonardo works for Duke Lorenzo de Medici, a patron of the arts.
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Commissioned for Adoration of the Magi, first large painting – which like so many others, he leaves unfinished!
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Leonardo offers service as engineer, architect, sculptor, and painter, to Duke of Milan.
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Moves to Milan; contracted for first Virgin of the Rocks, that he doesn’t finish; starts initial sketches for the equestrian statue for Duke of Milan. The Duke quickly asks it to be made three – four times lifesize.
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First Anatomical drawings appear in his notebooks.
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Leonardo directs feasts and pageants; starts serious work in notebooks; makes scale model for equestrian statue; considers making a telescope.
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Builds full-scale clay model of the equestrian statue, unveiled for wedding.
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May have painted second Virgin of the Rocks; begins construction of canal and molds for statue. Leonardo also spends some time away from Milan, in Pavia studying.
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Leonardo plans to publish his notebooks; writes book on theory of mechanics. He meets with other artists at an “Academia” to discuss artistic theories.
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Commissioned for painting of Battle of Anghiari; begins Mona Lisa (working intermittently on both). He also works on plans for canal from Florence to the sea and experiments with flying.
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Leonardo goes to Rome, at request of Pope Leo X’s brother, Giuliano. He opens art studio but concentrates on his science work.
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Leonardo writes his will (23rd of April) and dies and the 2nd of May
