Leonard Da Vinci: The Life Of Leonard Da Vinci

Leonard Da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in a Tuscan Hamlet near Vinci which today is called Italy. Leonardo was originally born Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci this mean “Leonardo (son) of (Mes)ser Piero from Vinci.” Leonardo was born out of wedlock to a wealthy notary named Piero da Vinci, and a peasant woman Caterina in Vinci. After his mother left his father, Leonardo spent the first five years of his life with his mother in the hamlet of Anchiano. In 1457, Leonardo moved to live with his father, grandparents, and his uncle in the small town of Vinci. Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian Renaissance man who areas of interests included painting, sculpting, invention, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy,

He received a commission to paint an altarpiece for the Chapel of St. Bernard in the Palazzo Vecchio and he received a commission for The Adoration of the Magi for the monks of San Donato a Scopeto. These two commissions went unfinished due to an offer from Ludovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan. Da Vinci was commissioned to paint The Last Supper for the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie. The Last Supper painting represents the Last Supper of Jesus with his apostles. In 1499 with Ludovico Sforza overthrown due to the Second Italian War, Da Vinci went back to Venice where he was employed as a military architect and engineer to defend the city from naval attack. During this time, Leonardo da Vinci invented advanced and deadly weapons, drawing plans for the first armored car in 1485. In 1500, Da Vinci was provided with a workshop where he painted The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist, an artwork that won him admiration from people all around. Years later, Leonardo da Vinci received a commission from Francesco del Giocondo to paint his wife, which is how Leonardo da Vinci’s most well-known painting Mona Lisa came about. The Mona Lisa hangs in the Louvre Museum in Paris behind bulletproof glass, and is regarded as a national treasure. In 1504, Leonardo da Vinci’s father passed, and he went back to Florence. In 1507, Da Vinci had to

A famous saying of Leonardo da Vinci was “The eye sees a thing more clearly in dreams, than the imagination awakes.” Leonardo died at Clos Luce in France, on May 2,1519 at the age of 67 due to a recurrent stroke. In 1506, Leonardo’ s pupil Francesco Melzi, the son of a Lombard aristocrat, who was said to be Leonardo’s favorite student travelled to France with Leonardo until his death. Leonardo spent his last years in France at the house awarded to by Francis I of France. Francesco Melzi was the heir and executor, receiving, as well as money, Leonardo’s painting, tools, library, and personal effect. Leonardo’s pupil Salai and his servant Battista di Vilussis received half of Leonardo’s vineyards. His brothers received land, and his serving woman received a black cloak “of good stuff” with a fur edge. Vasari records that the king held Leonardo’s head in his arms as he died. This act was portrayed in romantic paintings by Ingres, Menageot, and other French artists, such as: Angelica Kauffman. Vasari also stated that in Leonardo last days, Leonardo sent for a priest to make his confession and to receive the Holy Sacrament (visible rites seen as signs and efficacious channels