Leonardo da Vinci
Tuscan painter, engineer and anatomist who filled thousands of notebook pages and left fewer than twenty paintings.
PersonAlso known as Leonardo
15 Apr 1452 O.S. – 2 May 1519 O.S.
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- Leonardo da Vinci
- Leonardo is born at Vinci · subject15 Apr 1452 O.S.
- Listed in his grandfather’s tax return · subject1457 O.S.
- Florence: Verrocchio’s workshop and first commissions · apprenticec. 1466 O.S.
- The copper ball goes up on Brunelleschi’s dome · apprentice27 May 1471 O.S.
- Enrolled in the painters’ Company of St Luke · member1472 O.S.
- The Annunciation · painterc. 1474 O.S.
- An angel in Verrocchio’s Baptism of Christ · painterc. 1475 O.S.
- The earliest dated drawing · draughtsman5 Aug 1473 O.S.
- Ginevra de’ Benci · painterc. 1476 O.S.
- Named in an anonymous accusation of sodomy · accused9 Apr 1476 O.S.
- His first public commission · painter10 Jan 1477/78 O.S.
- A hanged conspirator, drawn from life · draughtsman29 Dec 1479 O.S.
- The Adoration of the Magi, left unfinished · painter1481 O.S.
- Milan: in Ludovico Sforza’s service · court artist1482 O.S.
- The Virgin of the Rocks is commissioned · painter25 Apr 1483 O.S.
- Lady with an Ermine · painterc. 1490 O.S.
- The Vitruvian Man · draughtsmanc. 1490 O.S.
- The Paradise masque · stage designer13 Jan 1490 O.S.
- Salaì joins the household · master22 Jul 1490 O.S.
- The clay horse is shown · sculptorNov 1493 O.S.
- The Last Supper · painterc. 1496 O.S.
- Drawings for Pacioli’s Divine Proportion · illustrator1498 O.S.
- Ludovico gives him a vineyard · recipient2 Oct 1498 O.S.
- French archers shoot at the clay horse · sculptorOct 1499 O.S.
- The wandering years · travellerDec 1499 O.S.
- Isabella d’Este sits for a drawing · draughtsmanc. Jan 1500 O.S.
- Venice: a plan to flood the Isonzo · surveyorMar 1500 O.S.
- “He cannot bear the brush” · painterApr 1501 O.S.
- In Cesare Borgia’s service · military engineerJul 1502 O.S.
- Borgia’s passport · military engineer18 Aug 1502 O.S.
- The map of Imola · cartographerc. Oct 1502 O.S.
- A margin note dates the Mona Lisa · painterOct 1503 O.S.
- The Battle of Anghiari is commissioned · painterOct 1503 O.S.
- On the committee to place Michelangelo’s David · committee member25 Jan 1503/04 O.S.
- His father dies · son9 Jul 1504 O.S.
- The Codex on the Flight of Birds · author1505 O.S.
- Anghiari: painting begins · painter6 Jun 1505 O.S.
- Milan: in the service of the French · painter and engineerJun 1506 O.S.
- The Codex Leicester · authorc. 1508 O.S.
- The centenarian’s dissection · anatomistc. Jan 1508 O.S.
- The London Virgin of the Rocks is delivered · painter1508 O.S.
- The Codex Arundel is begun · author22 Mar 1508 O.S.
- Dissections at Pavia · anatomistc. Jan 1511 O.S.
- A plan to drain the Pontine Marshes · engineerc. 1514 O.S.
- Leonardo leaves Milan for Rome · traveller24 Sep 1513 O.S.
- Rome: in Giuliano de’ Medici’s household · courtierDec 1513 O.S.
- Barred from dissecting · anatomist1515 O.S.
- A mechanical lion for the king · designer12 Jul 1515 O.S.
- Amboise: the king’s painter · king’s painter1516 O.S.
- Giuliano de’ Medici dies · protégé17 Mar 1515/16 O.S.