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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Italian Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci; April 15, 1452, Ankiano village, near the town of Vinci, near Florence - May 2, 1519, the castle Clos Lucé near Amboise, Touraine, France) - Italian painter (painter, sculptor, architect) and scientist (anatomist, naturalist), inventor, writer, one of the leading representatives of the High Renaissance art, a vivid example of the "universal man" BIOGRAPHY Home Next

Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in the village near the small town Ankiano Vinci, near Florence. His parents were 25-year-old notary Piero ( ) and his lover, a peasant woman Caterina. Early Life Leonardo spent with her mother. His father soon married a rich and noble girl, but the marriage was childless, and Piero took his three sons to raise. Separated from his mother Leonardo life trying to recreate her image in his masterpieces. CHILDHOOD The house in which he lived as a child Leonardo Home Next

- In the years Leonardo worked on " Baptism of Christ", "Annunciation", "Madonna with vase " - In the second half of the 70s was to create a " Madonna with a Flower " (" Benois Madonna "). - About his life after this event very little is known, but probably (have documents), he had his own workshop in Florence in , respectively. - In 1481, da Vinci made the first in my life big order - altarpiece "The Adoration of the Magi" (not completed) to the monastery of San Donato and systems located near Florence. In the same year, work began on the painting " Saint Jerome " - In 1482 Leonardo, being, according to Vasari, a very talented musician, created a silver lyre in the shape of a horse's head. - Lorenzo de 'Medici sent him to Milan as a peacemaker to Lodovico Moro, a lyre sent to him as a gift. Then work began on horseback monument Francesco Sforza. PROFESSIONAL CAREER Home Next

started work on " Madonna of the Rocks " development of the flying machine - ornithopter based on the bird's flight painting " Lady with an Ermine " anatomical drawings of skulls painting " Portrait of a musician." Made the clay model of the monument to Francesco Sforza Vitruvian Man - famous drawing, sometimes called canonical proportions created "Madonna Litta " finished "Madonna of the Rocks " work on the fresco "The Last Supper " in the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan Milan captured by French troops of Louis XII, Leonardo leaves Milan, Sforza monument model badly damaged PROFESSIONAL CAREER Home Next

entered the service of Cesare Borgia as an architect and military engineer return to Florence cardboard to the fresco " The Battle of Anjar ( Anghiari ) " and painting "Mona Lisa" outline the flight of birds Milan and return to service of the king of France Louis XII ( at the time controlled the north of Italy, see Italian Wars ) study of the structure of the human eye work in Milan over the equestrian monument to Marshal Trivulzio painting in the Cathedral of St. Anne "Self Portrait" Moving to Rome under the patronage of Pope Leo X PROFESSIONAL CAREER Home Next

Leonardo died on May 2, 1512, surrounded by students and their masterpieces in the Clos-Luce. Leonardo da Vinci was buried in the castle of Amboise. On the tombstone was the inscription: "Within the walls of this monastery ashes of Leonardo da Vinci, the greatest artist, engineer and architect of the French kingdom." END OF LIFE Clos Lucé, Leonardo place of death Home Next

Our contemporaries Leonardo is known primarily as a painter. Also da Vinci could be a sculptor. However, the da Vinci in different periods of his life, he considered himself primarily a scientist or engineer. He gave a fine art is not a lot of time and worked slowly. Therefore, the artistic legacy of Leonardo quantitatively not large, and some of his work has been lost or severely damaged. Through his work art painting transferred to a new stage in its development ACHIEVEMENTS Home

ART Mona Lisa ( /1506) Mona Lisa ( /1506) "Mona Lisa," the full name - Portrait of Mrs. Lisa del Giocondo - Leonardo da Vinci, which is in the Louvre (Paris, France), one of the most famous paintings in the world, which is thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of a silk merchant from Florence, Francesco del Giocondo, written around the year Next Back

ART The Last Supper (1498) The Last Supper (1498) "The Last Supper" - fresco by Leonardo da Vinci, depicting a scene of the Last Supper of Christ with his disciples. Created in years in the Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan Next Back

ART The work was written for the rulers of Milan, then moved to the family Litta, and for several centuries was in their private collection. The original name of the painting - "Madonna with Child". The modern name of the painting comes from the name of its owner - Count Litta, the owner of the family art gallery in Milan Madonna Litta ( )» Madonna Litta ( )» Next Back

SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Flying machine Next Back Spotlight» Crossbow

LITERATURE Treatise on Painting Next

1. Leonardo da Vinci. Selected works of natural science. Moscow, World Monuments aesthetic thought, that I, Moscow, I. Les manuscrits de Leonard de Vinci, de la Bibliothèque de l'Institut, Leonardo da Vinci: Traité de la peinture, Codice di Leonardo da Vinci, nella Biblioteca del principe Trivulzio, Milano, Codice Atlantico di Leonardo da Vinci, nella Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milano, Volynskii AL, Leonardo da Vinci, St. Petersburg, 1900, 2nd ed., St. Petersburg, Universal History of Art. V.3, M. "Art", Zubov VP Leonardo da Vinci. Izd. USSR Academy of Sciences, MEMORY OF LEONARDO Monument to Leonardo in Amboise Home