High Renaissance Italian polymath who worked as an artist, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect.
He created a hydraulic pump and gave the Duke of Milan a mobile bridge.
Da Vinci was an ambidextrous, paranoid dyslexic who could sketch with one hand while writing with the other, creating a mirror image script that was challenging for others to read.
Leonardo took about ten years to paint the Mona Lisa’s lips.
1472
At the age of 20, Leonardo qualified as a master in the Guild of Saint Luke, the guild of artists and doctors of medicine.
1473
His earliest known dated work — a pen-and-ink drawing of a landscape in the Arno valley — was sketched.
1478
Leonardo received an independent commission to paint an altarpiece for the Chapel of St. Bernard in the Palazzo Vecchio.
1493
In his notebooks, Leonardo first stated the ‘laws’ of sliding friction.
1495
While working in Milan, Leonardo took on many projects. One of those was one of his most famous, The Last Supper.
- Leonardo (TV Series 2021– ) – IMDb The series recounts Leonardo da Vinci’s extraordinary life through the works that made him famous, through the stories hidden within those works, revealing little by little the inner torment of a man obsessed with attaining perfection. Creators Frank.
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