It is not easy to become part of even a simple line in the great book of history , without a doubt the thousands of names that are part of it are worthy and worthy of being included.Beyond history there is a special place where only the great, the geniuses arrive, where there are plenty of presentations because history could not be understood without them. Leonardo Da Vinci, a genius with a point of madness , a visionary or an inventor, painter or thinker, surely a lot and a little of everything. Biography and works of Leonardo Da Vinci , the legacy of an artist, who went ahead of his time giving meaning to a new era called Renaissance.
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Leonardo Da Vinci | Biography
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 in Vinci, in the Arno river valley, Tuscany, territory controlled by the Medici family and belonging to the Republic of Florence, in an era in which Italy was then a compendium of city-states like Florence, republics like Venice and fiefdoms under the power of the princes or even the Pope himself.
He spent his first years in Anchiano in his mother's house, who had married a craftsman in the area, but in the year 1457, he moved to live with his father and grandparents.His father had been married for years, but had not been able to have offspring, perhaps that was the reason why the one who brought young Leonardo.
Florence First Works
1460, they moved to Florence, Leonardo quickly showed signs of and his ingenuity, he often imagined mythological beings invented by him and made incredible shields full of monstrous figures.This feature did not go unnoticed by his father and in 1466 , Leonardo enters as an apprentice in the workshop by Andrea del Verrocchio, There you will learn the techniques of altarpiece painting, marble and bronze sculpture or various mechanics techniques.
Six years later Leonardo was already prepared to be considered Artist Free and he was admitted to the painters' guild of the City of Florence.It was in this workshop where Leonardo had his first contact with aloleo painting, a new pictorial technique that requires a more brushstroke soft and soft.
At this time he collaborates with his teacher in different works like The Baptism of Christ, where I collaborate painting elangel kneeling to the left of the canvas, as well as the hazy landscape in the background.The first commission was an altarpiece for the Palazzo Vecchio chapel, but this project never got to be executed.
In 1471, Andrea del Verrocchio, receives Brunelleschi's commission to build and place a sphere of 1800 kg and 2 m in diameter, made of copper and that would be housed at the top of the lantern of the Cathedral, approximately 100 m from the ground The project to raise the area of 1800 kg to the lantern was commissioned to the young Leonardo Da Vinci, The impressive thing is that he was only 19 years old.
But his first important work was commissioned by the monks of San Donato de Scopeto, in the year 1481 , work that left unfinished The Adoration of the Magi .From this same period are the works Madonna Benois , the Geneva portrait of Benc i dated 1474 or also the unfinished painting of San Jeronimo del ano 1481.
Milan and Ludovico Sforza (1482-1500)
After being a thousand times praised but little hired, Leonardo plans to move to Milan and with this purpose He writes a letter to Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan, where he offers himself as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, inventor and Hydraulic.I do not hesitate to sell well, with ideas such as building portable bridges, techniques that would allow bombing, canons, armored boats, semi-automatic catapults, but also offered to make sculptures in different materials such as marble, bronze or terracotta.
Vitrubio's man.The reason between the side of the square and the radius of the circle is the NumeroAureo
I help with your knowledge to people as important as the mathematician Luca Pacioli , in his work The Divine Proportion of the year 1509.
Within this stage his most important works are one of the two versions of the representation of the Virgin of the Rocks years 1483-1485, which highlights the triangular composition composed of the figure of the Virgin, the Nino, San Juan and elAngel, it is in this work where Leonardo will use the sfumato technique for the first time, where the landscape is blurred, blurred.
Leonardo is commissioned to make a mural for the refectory of the Monastery of Santa Maria delle Garzie, where it will happen since 1495 to 1497, making one of the most beautiful works such as Laultima cena .It is at this time that he carries out different works in paintings and drawings or designs for the Milan Cathedral dome.
Within his works in sculpture, one of his greatest commissions, it is the bronze equestrian figure and of great size of Francesco Sforza , father of the current Duke of Milan.The statue was designed to adorn the courtyard of the Castle of the Sforza, but before Leonardo finished his work, in 1499, the Sforza family is expelled from Milan by the French and the unfinished statue of Leonardo, used as a target.The statue was destroyed.
In Venice
But Leonardo not only worked for the Sforza, in 1499, he received an assignment as a military engineer and as an architect in the city of Venice .The Venetians wanted to strengthen their defense to avoid the attack and invasion of the Turks.
Leonardo made a defense system and technical and tactical advances, where the Venetians could approach their enemies underwater, through a kind of underwater diving created with a kind of rudimentary helmet, an invention that was never used since the Turks never attacked.
Florence (1501-1508)
Around 1500 he returns to Florence and finally in 1502 he becomes an architect, of the Borgia house , specifically at the service of Cesar Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI.In his role as an architect, I supervise the works of the palaces/fortress that the Pope had in the central region of the Italian Peninsula.
Also I am part of the commission in charge of finding location to David de MiguelAngel, work done between 1501-1504.I participate in the war against Pisa.
In 1504, receives the commission of the planning for the decoration of the Palace of the Signoria, The theme that should bring the decoration is the battle of Anghiari .In the making various drawings and sketches but I never get to paint the brush on them.
From this time we also have to talk about the realization of different portraits, between which Highlights La Gioconda 1503-1506, a painting highly appreciated by the artist and from which he never separated, taking it with him on each of his trips.
Period Milan-Rome
In the year 1506, Leonardo is claimed by the French governor Carlos II Chaumont, he should have recommended him to the French court and in 1507, Leonardo Da Vinci is appointed painter of the court of King Louis XII of France, at that time residing in Rome.
In this period Leonardo will spend great periods between Milan and Florence.It is from this same time the execution of the second version of the Virgin of the Rocks, Santa Ana and the Virgin and the Child , years 1506-1513.In 1516 he returns to Rome under the protection and patronage of Giuliano de Medici, a brother of Pope Leon X, where he had time to investigate and learn mainly to perform different scientific and technical experiments.
Cientif Only Leonardo did several studies on the human body, he paid for the corpses to which he was dissecting, while writing down in his notebook each layer he removed, getting to have a deep and total knowledge of human anatomy , his concern for pregnancy, the functioning of muscles, tendons, bones, etc.
Leonardo's character was somewhat extravagant, as befits a genius of his caliber, vegetarian man, despised everyone who ate meat by calling them " corpse eaters " .Jealous man of his intimacy.
Leonardo's last years in France
By 1516, Leonardo leaves for France, there he enters the court of King Francisco I , living his last years in the castle of Cloux. On May 2, 1519, Leonardo Da Vinci dies in the castle, refuge of his last years.He was held in the cloister of the Church of Saint-Florentin in Amboise, in a funeral ceremony that was accompanied by chaplains and Fariles Minor, 60 poor people, each carrying a torch, as there was left written in his will of April 23.
A tombstone indicates the place where Leonardo Da VInci was buried
Years later and during the war between religions, Catholics and Huguenots, the tomb of Leonardo Da Vinci was raped and his remains were scattered.A sad and sad end to a genius who was ahead of his time and who might not be well understood.
Leonardo Da Vinci | Most Important Works
The most important works of the extensive and prolific life of Leonardo Da Vici are:
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