This document provides a biography of Leonardo da Vinci. It details that he was born in Vinci, Italy in 1452 and apprenticed under the artist Andrea del Verrocchio. As an artist, Leonardo is famous for paintings like The Last Supper, Mona Lisa, and Virgin of the Rocks. He also engaged in scientific studies of anatomy, botany, and inventing military machines. Leonardo made detailed drawings of human dissections and the proportions of the human body. He studied various subjects including light, anatomy, and comparative anatomy of animals.

1. LEONARDO DA
VINCI
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

2. Biography
 He was born April 15,1452 in the town of
Vinci,Italy
 The son of Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio
da Vinci a Florentine(Florence,Italy) Civil Law
Notary and Caterina a peasant.
 His full name Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
means Leonardo the son of Mes(ser) Piero
from Vinci.

3. Biography
•Spent his first five
years in this hamlet( a
settlement located in a
rural area)
•Then from 1457 he
lived in the household
of his father,
grandparent and uncle
Francesco in Vinci.

4. Education
 He received an informal
education of Latin,
Geometry and
Mathematics
 At the age of fourteen
Leonardo was
apprenticed by Andrea
del Verrocchio a famous
artist whose workshop
was one of the finest in
Florence, Italy.
Verrocchio
(True Eye)

5. Education/Early Paintings
 In Verrochio’s workshop he learned a variety of
technical skills such as drafting, chemistry,
metallurgy, metal working, plaster casting,
leather working, mechanics and carpentry as
well as the artistic skills of drawing, painting,
sculpting and modelling.
 Left Verrocchio’s studio/workshop in 1478
because he along with 3 others was charged
with sodomy(anal or sexual activity with the
same gender or animals)but later acquitted.

6. The Baptism of Christ
Artist: Andrea del Verrocchio & Leonardo da Vin
Year: 1472-1475
Type: Oil on wood
Dimensions: 177 cm × 151 cm (70 in × 59 in)
Location: Uffizi, Florence
The painting depicts(shows) the Baptism of Jesu
John the Baptist as recorded in the Biblical Gosp
Of Matthew, Mark and Luke.

7. Adoration of Magi
Artist: Leonardo Da Vinci
Year: 1481
Type: Oil on wood
Dimensions: 246 cm
× 243 cm (97 in × 96 in)
Location: Uffizi, Florence
The Virgin Mary and Child
are depicted in the
foreground and form a
triangular shape with the
Magi kneeling in adoration.
Behind them is a semicircle
of accompanying figures,
including what may be a self-
portrait of the young
Leonardo (on the far right).

8. Painting Description
•Palm tree is the symbol of victory
for Ancient Rome or in general
represents triumph over ancient
Rome’s persecution of Christians
•Much of the composition of the
painting is based in an earlier work
of Rogier Van der Weyden’s
Lamentation of Christ
•The ruins are a possible reference
to the Basilica of Maxentius, which,
according to Medieval legend, the
Romans claimed would stand until
a virgin gave birth

9. Lamentation of Christ
Artist: Rogier van der Weyden
Year: 1460–1463
Type: Oil on panel
Dimensions: 96 cm × 110 cm (38 in × 43 in
Location: Uffizi Gallery, Florence
The painting has a rectangular shape, and
shows Christ being buried with the weeping
Mary and John the Evangelist holding his h
The corpse is supported by a richly dresse
Joseph of Arimathea.
A kneeling Mary Magdalene is depicted in t
low foreground.

10. Leonardo’s Professional Life
 Leonardo worked in Milan from 1482 to 1499
 Was commissioned to paint the “Virgin of
Rocks” for the Confraternity of the Immaculate
Conception and “The Last Supper” for the
Monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie

11. Virgin of the Rocks
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Year: 1483-1486
Type: Oil on panel (transferred to canvas)
Dimensions: 199 cm × 122 cm (78.3 in
× 48.0 in)
Location: Louvre, Paris

12. The Last Supper
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Year: 1494–1498
Type: tempera on gesso, pitch and mastic
Dimensions: 460 cm × 880 cm (181 in × 346 in)
Location: Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
Tempera - is a permanent, fast-drying
painting medium consisting of colored
pigment mixed with egg yolk.
Gesso – white paint mixture
Pitch – derived from coal tar o plants
Mastic – gum or tree extract

13. Leonardo’s Professional Life
 In 1502 Leonardo entered the service of
Cesare Borgia the son of Pope Alexander VI
and mistress Vannozza de Cattanei acting as
military architect.
 As maps were rare in that time, he made a
map of Cesare’s stronghold

14. Old Age
 From September 1513 to 1516, under Pope
Leo X, Leonardo spent much of his time living
in the Belvedere(Courtyard) in the Vatican in
Rome, where Raphael and Michelangelo were
both active at the time.
 In 1516, he entered François' service, being
given the use of the manor house Clos Lucé
near the king's residence at the royal Château
d'Amboise. It was here that he spent the last
three years of his life.
 Died May 2,1516

15. Famous Paintings - Ginevra de'
Benci
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Location: National Gallery of Art
Dimensions: 1' 3" x 1' 3" (38 cm x 37 cm)
Subject: Ginevra de' Benci
Created: 1474–1478
Type: Oil paint
Ginevra de’ Benci was an aristocrat from
fifteenth-century Florence, admired for her
intelligence by Florentine contemporaries.

16. Famous Paintings - Vitruvian
Man
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Dimensions: 1' 2" x 0' 10" (34 cm x 26 cm)
Created: 1490
Type: Ink
The Vitruvian Man, is a drawing by Leonardo d
Vinci around 1490. It is accompanied by notes
based on the work of the architect Vitruvius.

17. Famous Paintings - St. John the
Baptist
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Location: The Louvre
Dimensions: 2' 3" x 1' 10" (69 cm x 57 cm)
Subject: John the Baptist
Created: 1513–1516
Type: Oil paint
St. John the Baptist is an oil painting on walnut
Wood by Leonardo da Vinci. Completed from 151
to 1516, when the High Renaissance was
metamorphosing into Mannerism, it is believed
to be his final painting.

18. Famous Paintings - Benois
Madonna
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Location: Hermitage Museum
Created: October 1478
Media: Oil paint
Subject: Mary, Madonna and Child, Child Jesus, Madonna
Madonna and Child with Flowers, otherwise known as t
Madonna, could be one of two Madonnas Leonardo da V
had commented on having started in October 1478.
The other one could be Madonna of the Carnation from M

19. Famous Paintings – Mona Lisa
The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait of a
woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci,
which has been acclaimed as "the best
known, the most visited, the most written
about, the most sung about, the most
parodied work of art in the world.”
Artist: Leonardo da Vinci
Location: The Louvre (since 1797)
Dimensions: 2' 6" x 1' 9" (77 cm x 53 cm)
Subject: Lisa del Giocondo
Created: 1503–1517

20. Other Famous Paintings
 Lady with an Ermine (1490 AD)
 The Battle of Angiari(1505 AD)
 Annunciation (1475 AD)
 La Belle Ferroniere( 1496 AD )
 Madonna of the Carnation( 1480 AD )
 Madonna of the Yarnwinder( 1507 AD )
 Madonna Litta
 The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist(
1500 AD)
 Head of a Woman ( 1508 AD)
 St. Jerome in the Wilderness ( 1480 AD)
 Salvator Mundi ( 1519 AD)
 Portrait of a Musician ( 1490 AD )
 Medusa ( Date not available)
 Leonardo's horse
 Leda and the Swan (1508 AD)
 Horse and Rider(1508 AD)
 Bacchus ( 1515 AD)
 Portrait of a man in red chalk(1512
 Drapery for a Seated Figure(1470)
 Madonna of Laroque(1503 AD)

21. General Overview
In general, the studies and inventions of
Leonardi Da Vinci includes: Painting, Anatomy ,
Science , Engineering , Geology, Cartography,
Hydrodynamics, Astronomy, Alchemy,
Mathematics, Music (Viola Organista) and Flight
(he invented the first models of flying machines).

22. Scientific Studies-Anatomy
As a scientist, Leonardo had no formal educa
in Latin and mathematics and did not attend
university. Because of these factors, his scien
studies were largely ignored by other scholar
Leonardo's approach to science was one of
intense observation and detailed recording, h
tools of investigation being almost exclusively
eyes. His journals give insight into his
investigative processes.
Studies of a fetus from Leonardo's journals

23. Scientific Studies-Anatomy
Investigating the motion of the arm.
Leonardo kept a series of journals in which he wrote
almost daily, as well as separate notes and sheets of
observations, comments and plans. He wrote and drew
with his left hand, and most of his writing is in mirror
script, which makes it difficult to read. Much has surviv
to illustrate Leonardo's studies, discoveries and inven

24. Scientific Studies-Light and
Anatomy
Study of the graduations of light
and shade on a sphere.
Study of the proportions of the head.

25. Scientific Studies –
Anatomy/Dissection
Anatomy of a Male Nude Dissected Skull

26. Scientific Studies – Anatomy
Leonardo studied the vascular system and drew
dissected heart in detail. He correctly worked out
how heart valves ebb the flow of blood yet he did
not fully understand circulation as he believed tha
blood was pumped to the muscles where it was
consumed.

27. Scientific Studies – Comparative Anatomy
Leonardo not only studied human anatomy, but the
anatomy of many other animals as well. He dissec
cows, birds, monkeys ,frogs and dogs comparing i
drawings their anatomical structure with that of hum
On one page of his journal Leonardo drew five pro
studies of a horse with its teeth bared in anger an
for comparison, a snarling lion and a snarling man.

28. Scientific Studies - Botany
Study of sedge
Leonardo's study of plants, resulting in many beautiful
drawings in his notebooks, was not to record in diagram
form the parts of the plant, but rather, as an artist and obse
to record the precise appearance of plants, the manner of
growth and the way that individual plants and flowers of a
single variety differed from one another.

29. War Machines
Artillery Park (1487) drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.Drawing of Leonardo’s proposed Tank