Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath born in 1452 in Vinci, Tuscany. He apprenticed under the sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence from 1466-1472, where he learned painting techniques like mixing colors and painting in oils. Some of his most famous works include The Last Supper, the Mona Lisa, and The Virgin of the Rocks. He lived in Milan from 1482-1499 where he painted The Last Supper and worked on many unfinished projects. Da Vinci later moved to France in 1516 where he died in Amboise in 1519.

1. Leonardo Da Vinci
1452-1519

2. • Born in Vinci, Tuscany,
Italy (15th Apr. 1452)
• Mother – Catarina, father –
Ser Piero, a public notary
• Went to school there,
studied geometry and Latin
• He lived there until he was
14
• Then moved to Florence
where he began an
apprenticeship in the
workshop of Verrocchio.

3. • started an apprenticeship in
the workshop of Andrea del
Verrocchio 1466 (sculptor,
painter, goldsmith, bronze
caster and more)
• the mixing of colors and
then he painted simple parts
of paintings, taught himself
to paint in oils at this time
• In June 1472 - listed in the
red book of painters from
Florence, end of
apprenticeship.

4. • Leonardo da Vinci’s
first known and dated
work (5th of August
1473)
• "the perspective of
disappearance".

5. • "Baptism of
Christ", 1472-1475,
assisted his master
Verrocchio

6. • 1476, accused to
have a homosexual
affair with Jacopo
Saltarelli (a model),
acquittal

7. • The Benois
Madonna, 1478

8. • St.Jermoe,
1481
• Never finished
• Now in the
Vatican

9. • Milan (1482-1499)
• “The Last Supper”
• Many unfinished works
• “Gran Cavallo”

10. • “The virgin of the
Rocks”, 1483 - 86

11. • “Mona Lisa”
(1503-1505/1507)
• Sfumato (smoky
effect)

12. • France (1516), Amboise, Le Clos Luce
• Dies 2 May 1519

14. By Cesare Mussini (1929)the last meeting