Da vinici (1452-1519)

1. Da vinici(1452-1519) Leonardo dai ser pierodavinici Birth date : April 15,1452 Death date: May 02,1519

2. Biography: Leonardo Da Vinci was born in April 15, 1452 in Vinci ,Italy .He was raised by his father and his step mother Caterina . Da Vinci was the most important painters of the Italian renaissance and the father of the high renaissance style. At the age of 15 he moved to the nearby city of Florence and became an apprentice to the artist Andrea del Verrocchio for six years At the age of 30 he entered the service of the Duke Milan in 1482 .In Milan, Leonardo sought and gained the patronage of Ludovico Sforza, and soon began work on the painting Virgin of the Rocks Andrea del Verrocchio

3. Virgin of the Rocks

4. he was keeping scrupulous notebooks on a number of studies, including artistic drawings but also depictions of scientific subjects ranging from anatomy to hydraulics. In 1490, he took a young boy, Salai, into his household, and in 1493 a woman named Caterina (most likely his mother) also came with him and lived with him Around 1495, Leonardo began his painting The Last Supper, which achieved huge success but began to deteriorate physically almost immediately upon completion

5. .In 1502, he went to work as chief military engineer to Cesare Borgia After a year he returned to Florence, where he contributed to the huge engineering project of diverting the course of the River Arno, and also painted a giant war mural, the Battle of Anghiari, which was never completed

6. . In 1505 Leonardo probably made his first sketches for the Mona Lisa, but it is not known when he completed the painting.

7. . In 1513, he moved to Rome, where Leo X reigned as pope. There, he worked on mirrors, and probably the above self- portrait. In 1516, he left Italy for France, joining King Francis I in Amboise, whom he served as a wise philosopher for three years before his death in 1519. His famous paintings: Mona Lisa The Last Supper Vitruvian Man Lady with an Ermine Self-portrait in Red Chalk