Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath born in 1452 in Vinci, Italy who worked as a painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer. He was apprenticed to Verrocchio at age 14 and exposed to various technical skills. By 1472 he qualified as a master artist. Some of his most famous works include the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and Virgin of the Rocks. He also made conceptual drawings of inventions like helicopters and tanks well before their time. There are also conspiracy theories that he was part of a secret society and left hidden codes and messages in his works of art.

1. LEONARDO DA VINCI
Work, Life and Study

2. BIOGRAPHY

3. LEONARDO DA VINCI

4. BIOGRAPHY
• Name : Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
• Birth : April 15, 1452
• Death : May 2 1519
• Birth place : Anchiano, near Vinci, Republic of Florence
• Occupation : painter, sculptor, architect, and engineer

5. VERROCCHIO'S WORKSHOP
(1466–1476)
• At the age of 14, Verrocchio was
apprenticed By Leonardo.
• Leonardo would have been exposed to
both theoretical training and a vast range
of technical skills including drafting,
chemistry, metallurgy, metal working,
plaster casting, leather working, mechanics
and carpentry as well as the artistic skills
of drawing, painting, sculpting and
modeling.
The Baptism of Christ(1472–1475) by
Verrocchio and Leonardo

6. • By 1472, at the age of twenty, Leonardo qualified as a
master in the Guild of St Luke, the guild of artists and
doctors of medicine
Leonardo's earliest known drawing, the Arno Valley (1473)

7. TIMELINE OF EVENTS
1452 - Leonardo is born on April 15 in the village of Anchiano, near the town of Vinci.
1467 - At 15 Leonardo is sent to Florence to work as apprentice to Andrea De Verrocchio.
1472 - 20 year-old Leonardo is accepted into the painters' guild of Florence.
1476 - Leonardo is accused of sodomy; he is publicly humiliated although the charges are
later dropped.
1478 - The Annunciation is painted. The work, initially credited to Da Vinci, is now
believed to have been painted by Lorenzo di Credi.
1481 - Leonardo begins work on The Adoration of the Magi, an altarpiece for the
Monastery of San Donato at Scopeto. He sketches many studies.

8. 1482 - Leonardo moves to Milan to work in the service of the city's duke,
Ludovico Sforza. He gains the title of "painter and engineer of the duke”.
1483 - Leonardo paints the Virgin of the Rocks.
1485 - Leonardo paints Lady with an Ermine.
1495 - Leonardo begins work on The Last Supper in the refectory of the convent
of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.
1498 - The Last Supper is completed.
1499 - With the duke Ludovico Sforza'a fall from power, Da Vinci leaves Milan
and spends a short time in Venice.
1500 - Leonardo begins painting the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, a project
that he only finishes after 10 years.

9. 1500 - Leonardo returns to Florence.
1502 - Leonardo begins work as senior military architect and general engineer
for Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI.
1503 - Leonardo is commissioned to paint the Mona Lisa.
1503 - Leonardo is commission to paint a mural for the council hall in Florence's
Palazzo Vecchio, which is to be the Battle of Anghiari, a work that would remain
unfinished.
1515 - Leonardo paints St. John the Baptist.
1516 - The king of France invites Leonardo to come work for him.
1519 - May 2, Leonardo dies in France.

10. HIS ART

11. THE MONA LISA
• Completed 1503–1519
• One of Leonardo's most
famous paintings.
• Also known as
• La Gioconda or
• La Joconde, or
• Portrait of Lisa Gherardini,
• Wife of Francesco del
Giocondo

12. THE VIRGIN
ON THE ROCK
(AKA Madonna on the Rocks)
• Consists of two
identical
paintings
• Both at two
locations.

13. THE LAST SUPPER • Completed 1495–1498
• Depicts Jesus Christ's last supper.
• Underwent many restorations

14. OTHER FAMOUS ART
Self Portrait Madonna of the Carnation The Virgin and Child with St. Anne
1475-78 1508–17

15. OTHER FAMOUS ART
Annunciation – Around 1472

16. INVENTIONS

17. Conceptual Ideas/inventions
• Helicopter,
• Parachute,
• Calculator,
• Tank,
• Solar power,
• A basic theory of plate tectonics.
He also greatly improved the
understanding of
• Hydrodynamics,
• Astronomy,
• Anatomy,
• optics

21. Doing Da Vinci

22. DA VINCI SECRETS
Conspiracies

23.  Member of the Secret Society known as the PRIORY OF SION
 Expert at Ciphers & Encryption.
 Believed to have left clues in his artworks. e.g.: MONA LISA, LAST
SUPPER

24. GREATEST MYSTERIES
Original Painting of the Last Supper
• The most significant clue left by Leonardo, according
to Brown, is that the disciple usually identified as John
in the picture is actually Mary Magdalene.
• There were claims that da Vinci's The Last Supper
contains a hidden image of a woman holding a child.

25. MONA LISA
• Right eye contains the letters LV
• Left eye contains Symbols which are yet to be determined

26. H O LY B L O O D, H O LY G R A I L
written by Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln

28. THANK YOU!