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Leonardo da Vinci and artworks - Gabriel Séailles
Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right, 1508-1512
Charcoal, black and red chalks, 20.3 x 15.6 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Biography
1452:
Leonardo is born on April 15th in a small Tuscan town called Anchiano near Vinci in the Florentine region. He is the illegitimate son of a wealthy notary, Ser Piero, and a peasant girl, Caterina. His father takes charge of him after his birth, while Caterina leaves to marry another man. His two parents, each of them remarrying, give him seventeen brothers and sisters.
1457:
Leonardo goes to live with his father, who had married Alberia Amadori.
1460:
The young man follows his father to Florence.
1469:
At the age of 15 he becomes an apprentice in the famous studio of Andrea del Verrochio in Florence. There, he is responsible for part of the altarpieces and for some large painted panels as well as for sculptures in bronze and marble. He draws an angel in one of the Verrochio’s paintings which so impresses his master that the latter vows never to paint again. Leonardo remains in that studio until 1477.
1472:
He enters the painters’ guild.
1473:
Leonardo paints the first of his famous works, La Valle dell’Arno.
1478:
He receives an order for an altar panel for the Vecchio Palace, a project which is never completed.
1492:
Leonardo leaves Florence for Milan. He manages to enter the service of Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, after boasting in a letter to him of his talent for building bridges, ships, cannons, catapults and other war machines. In fact, it is because he professes to be a musician beyond compare that he is given the post he requested. He remains as an artist in the court of Milan for eighteen years, paints numerous portraits and creates the decorations for palace parties. His fascination with complex mechanisms becomes more intense, and he studies at length physics, biology and mathematics, applying his new knowledge to his duties as an engineer. However, Leonardo’s interests are so broad that he often leaves projects unfinished.
1492:
Leonardo paints The Virgin of the Rocks. He also designs elaborate armaments, among them a tank and war vehicles, as well as submarines and other battle engines.
1492:
He draws remarkable plans for a flying machine.
1495:
Leonardo begins work on The Last Supper, in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie. The work is finished in 1498.
1496:
Leonardo meets the mathematician, Luca Pacioli, with whom he studies the treatises of Euclid.
1499:
The invasion of Milan by the French drives Leonardo to leave the city. He goes to Mantua, then to Venice, and finally to Friuli seeking employment.
1502:
Leonardo begins work as a military engineer for Cesar Borgia, Duke of Romagne, son of Pope Alexander VI and General-in-Chief of his army. He supervises the building sites of the fortresses erected on the pontifical territories in central Italy.
1503:
He becomes a member of the commission charged with finding a place worthy of the statue David by Michelangelo. His talents as an engineer are in great demand during the war against Pisa. He draws sketches for The Battle of Anghiari.
1504:
His father dies on July 9th. There is a large inheritance, but Leonardo is swindled out of his share by the deception and trickery of his siblings. The death of his uncle soon afterwards revives the inheritance disputes; however, this time Leonardo wins out, receiving both the fortune and lands of his uncle. It is during this period that he begins to paint the Mona