Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath who lived from 1452-1519 and is considered one of the greatest painters of all time. Some of his most famous artworks include the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and Vitruvian Man. Da Vinci felt that science and art were interconnected and he spent much of his time studying nature, anatomy, and developing scientific theories and inventions. He left a significant collection of notebooks documenting his wide-ranging interests.

1. By
Kristine Cayo
Leonardo da
vinci

3. Table of contents
About
Early Life
Early Career
Famous Artwork
Philosophy of
Interconnectedness
Later Years

4. About
Da vinci

5. ABOUT
Leonardo Da vinci is considered to be one of
the greatest painters of all time.
He was a leading artist and intellectual of
the Italian Renaissance.
He is a Italian Polymath- Scientist,
mathematic, musician, inventor, anatomist, painter,
sculptor, architect, botanist, and writer.
Some of his engineer ideas were ahead of
his time. He had ideas like a helicoptor, tank,
concentrated solar power, and a calculator.

6. EARLY
LIFE

7. Childhood
Leonardo Da Vinci was born on April 15,
1452. He was born in Vinci, Italy.

8. Mother and Father
His father was Messer
Piero Fruosino di
Antonio da Vinci.
His mother was a
peasant.
They were never
married.
Leonardo had a total of
17 siblings.

9. EARLY
Career

10. Early career
Leonardo was apprenticed around the age 14 to the
noted sculptor and painter Andre del Verrocioc
(Florence).
He remained with him until 1478 when he then became
an independent master.
In 1482 Da Vinci began painting his first commission
artwork, The Adoration of the Magi, for Florences San
Donatoa, Scopeto monestry. But, he never did finish
this piece.

11. Famous
Artwork

12. Famous Artwork
Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
Vitruvian Man
Lady with an Ermine
Self-Portrait

13. Mona Lisa
This painting is a
great mystery and is
one of the most
famous paintings of
all times.
Mona Lisa’s
enigmatic smile
remains a subject of
speculation.
The painting may be
a portrait of the wife
of Francesco del
Giocondo as
traditionally believed.
Oil on cottonwood, 76.8 x 53 cm (30.2 x 20.9 in), ca. 1503 – 06.

14. The last supper
The mural represents Jesus and the twelve disciples when Jesus says that one of them would betray him. The
painting which covers a wall at the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, Italy, is mainly a later
reconstruction because much of it deteriorated relatively soon as a result of Leonardo’s experimentation with
tempera and oil on dry wall.
Tempera on gesso, pitch mastic, 460 x 880 c (181 x 346 in), 1495 - 97.

15. Self-portrait in red chalk
The only Leonardo’s self-portrait
was drawn around 1512 when
the artist was 60 years old.
However, not everyone agrees
that the old man with long hair
and a beard represents
Leonardo da Vinci. The drawing
which was identified as self-portrait
is held by the Royal
Library of Turin, Italy.
Red chalk on paper, 33.3 x 21.6 cm (13.2 x 8.5 in), c. 1512.

16. Vitruvian Man
The drawing which depicts a man
in two superimposed positions
within a square and circle is
named after the architect Vitruvius
because it is accompanied by a
text which is based on the
architect’s work. The Vitruvian Man
is held by the Gallerie
dell’Academia in Venice, Italy, but
it is not permanently displayed.
Pen and ink on paper, 34.3 x 24.5 cm (13.5 x 9.6 in), ca. 1490.

17. Lady with an ermine
The model of the painting has been
identified as Cecilia Gallerani who
was a mistress of Ludovico Sforza,
Duke of Milan. The painting is one
of only four Leonardo da Vinci’s
female portraits next to La belle
ferronniere (which is also thought
to represent Cecilia Gallerani),
Ginevra de’ Benci and Mona Lisa.
Lady with an Ermine is displayed in
the Czartoryski Museum, Krakow,
Poland.
Oil on wood panel, 55 x 40 cm (21.6 x 15.7 in). c. 1490.

18. Philosophy of
interconnectedness

19. Leonardo felt that science and art were complementary rather than
distinct disciplines, and thought that ideas formed in one realm could and
should inform the other.
A lot of times da Vinci did not complete a lot of his paintings and projects. He
spent a lot of time immersing himself in nature, testing scientific laws,
dissecting bodies and thinking and writing about his observations.

20. Leonardo da Vinci started writing in notebooks, which are now
referred to as da Vinci’s manuscripts and codices. These notebooks
contained:
Painting
Architect
Mechanics
Human Anatomy

21. Later Years

22. Da Vinci left Italy in 1516 to be The
Premiere Painter and Engineer and
Architect to the King.
He died at Cloux in 1519 at age 67.
He was buried in the palace church of
Saint Florentin

23. Works cited
 www.history.com/topics/leonardo-da-vinci
 www.leonardoda-vinci.org
 www.Biography.com/people/leonardo-da-vinci-
40396#synopsis
 http://historylists.org/art/list-of-5-most-famous-artworks-
by-leonardo-da-vinci.html