Leonardo De Vinci Bios Life and Work

Leonardo was born at three o'clock one April 15, 1452, in a house Anchiano field, which today can be seen, near the town of Vinci, 30 km from Florence.'s Natural son of Ser Piero, a 25 year old from a family of notaries.

Leonardo surrounded by affection grows in a rural environment and in good financial position. His father remarried and moved to Florence where he learns to read and write, studied natural sciences. Learn with ease, because of his great curiosity, which continues throughout life.

His father asked to draw a shield decorated with snakes and vermin. With this little work your father gets one hundred ducats so some drawings of Leonardo gathers and displays the master Andrea del Verrocchio who runs a workshop in Florence. Starting from this learning how the young artist, circa 1469 at the age of 17 years, from the hand of Verrocchio.

In 1472 his name appears as part of the painters' guild of Florence. Leonardo takes part in the works of these years must be carried out in the workshop of the master, as "The Annunciation", "Neptune in the sea", "the portraits of Amerigo Vespucci and Captain Scaramuccia "or" the baptism of Christ, "which Leonardo painted an angel on the far left of the picture, which was much admired.

Visit characters, Paolo del Pozzo Toscanelli as geographer and astrologer. Attend dissections, and studied the lute. In 1479 Leonardo finished learning with Verrocchio. Leonardo was an excellent musician and poet, besides being a young man attractive.

A revival of the works he made is "The Virgin of the Rocks" (his first major work Milanese). It gets sfumatto technique, where the scattered light fills the air and figures, softening and smoothing the expression passage of light into the shadows.

The vagaries of Ludovico will require frequent changes of occupation and interrupt a job to pursue another. His passion was to unravel the secrets of nature and within the subject haunted him flying.

Make instruments to measure wind speed, a similar helicopter, wings to play with the air resistance. In 1495, he was commissioned a painting of "The Last Supper". The play is a psychological study of the apostles. In the summer installed in 1500 in Florence. It seems that from the rooftops of the Palazzo Vecchio rehearsed his air models.

He had diverse knowledge in: flight of birds, anatomy and fortification treated, statics, mechanics and geometry. About 1505 made the portrait of "La Gioconda", one of the most famous paintings in the world, whose lady does not know who he is.

In 1506 Milan will enter the service of the king of France. Leonardo was committed to the Signoria of Florence to return to the three months to continue the decoration of Santa Maria Novella. As it is a year, you must pay a fine of 150 gold florins and request further extensions.

King Louis XII himself is the one who tries to negotiate the artist's stay in Milan, in order to paint several portraits. In 1508, staying in Florence, dedicated to physics and mathematics. In the fall back again to the court of Milan as a painter. The king can engage in work of hydraulic engineering and geological studies over the valleys and Lake Iseo Lombardy.

Make a project to drain the Pontine marshes. At the same time should leave one of his passions (anatomical studies of the bodies), by accusations of practicing magic and sorcery, for what the pope advised to leave those investigations. In 1517 Leonardo leaves Rome, being also the last stage of his last paintings of his life, "San Juan Bautista", sweet and enigmatic smile reminiscent of the Mona Lisa. He died on May 2, 1519. If you love painting here you can visit the "Art Gallery" of Uruguayan contemporary painter G. Barsa, in addition, I invite you to visit the Digital Library http://www.magazineofsales.com where you'll find items of proven quality for your personal and spiritual development: Work out (training courses), Health (Natural Treatments), Sports, Entertainment, Computers, Languages, and more.