Leonardo da Vinci | Biography, Art, Paintings, & Mona Lisa

Full Name:	Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
Born:	15 April 1452, Anchiano, Italy
Died:	2 May 1519, Château du Clos Lucé, Amboise, France
Known For:	Painting, Drawing, Engineering, Science, Sculpture, Architecture

Leonardo da Vinci’s Early Life

Leonardo da Vinci (Leonardo da Vinci) was a He was an Italian painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist who was born in the town of Vincey on April 15, 1452. His father’s name was Piero. da Vinci and mother’s name was Katrina not much is known about his childhood other than his father was wealthy and had a number of wives very little is known describes

Leonardo da Vinci’s early childhood and how, at the age of fourteen, he became an apprentice to a great artist named Barack EO and learned to paint from him for many years. and sculpt under him and was also taught the basics of metallurgy drafting chemistry botany cartography and carpentry at the workshop he collaborated with Verrocchio on a number of paintings such as the baptism of Christ by 1472.

Leonardo qualified as a master in the guild of st. Luke is a group of artists and medics. Arno Valley, a sketch of the same-named valley, is one of his early sketches, dating from August. 5th 1473 with the help of her in 1478 he received two important painting commissions viz st. Jerome in the wildernesses and adoration of the Mahdi both of which were never completed from 1478 to 1480.

He painted Madonna of the carnation and oil painting with the central motifs of young Mary and baby Jesus on her lap and a carnation in her left hand the next important works were the virgin of the rocks– and Madonna of the rocks which were similar in style but differed in composition he was commissioned to create a massive horse statue for a patron one of his greatest paintings Duke Ludovico Sforza commissioned Leonardo to paint the Last Supper, and he worked on it from 1495 to 1498. In the year 1500, Leonardo was chosen as the Patron of the Arts. military architect and engineer in 1502 he entered the service of

sensor Borgia the son of Pope Alexander the 6th and created a map of sensor City at an In 1503, at a time when maps were scarce, Leonardo went to Florence and began painting a mural representing the Battle of Anghiari, which he completed in two years. He began work on his masterpiece.

Mona Lisa Painting by Leonardo da Vinci

Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, was painted about the same time and completed in 1506. In 1506 Leonardo went to Milan and returned many of his paintings. He was enamored with flight and had designs for developing something close to a helicopter in 1502, and he penned multiple books throughout his life. his lifetime.

In 1505, he published a codex on the avian flight. a scientific palimpsest that consists of 18 folios The Vitruvian Man is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci that was made around 1490. He was not drawn to women, but he made close friendships with his patrons Cecilia Kalarani and the two West days sisters. Isabella and Beatrice Vincey died on 2 May 1519 in the Amboise kingdom of France at the age of 67 art is never finished only abandoned said, Leonardo da Vinci.