Personal life of Leonardo da Vinci - Wikipedia
Leonardo da Vinci was described by his early biographers as a man with great personal appeal, kindness, and generosity. He was generally well loved by his contemporaries. According to Vasari, "Leonardo's disposition was so lovable that he commanded everyone's affection".
Leonardo da Vinci - Wikipedia
Vasari tells a story of Leonardo as a very young man: a local peasant made himself a round buckler shield and requested that Ser Piero have it painted for him.
Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk - Leonardo da Vinci
Although many notable artists following Leonardo, including Rembrandt, Claude Monet, and Vincent van Gogh produced numbers of self-portraits, this Portrait of a Man in Red Chalk is the only self-portrait that Leonardo da Vinci left behind.
The men who Leonardo da Vinci loved - BBC
Nov 8, 2019 · Francesco Melzi came into Leonardo’s life in around 1505. This young man, by contrast, was from a noble Milanese family, and developed a role in the workshop akin to private secretary.
Leonardo da Vinci | Biography, Art, Paintings, Mona Lisa, …
Leonardo da Vinci was an artist and engineer who is best known for his paintings, notably the (c. 1503–19) and the (1495–98). His drawing of the Vitruvian Man (c. 1490) has also become a cultural icon. Leonardo is sometimes credited as the inventor of the tank, helicopter, parachute, and flying machine, among other vehicles and devices, but ...
Leonardo da Vinci: Facts, Paintings & Inventions ‑ HISTORY
Dec 2, 2009 · Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, engineer, architect, inventor, and student of all things scientific. His natural genius crossed so many disciplines that he epitomized the term “Renaissance...
The Secret Lives of Leonardo da Vinci - The New Yorker
Oct 9, 2017 · In 1476, Leonardo da Vinci, on the verge of his twenty-fourth birthday, was named as one of four men who had practiced “such wickedness” with the seventeen-year-old apprentice of a local...
The Life of Leonardo da Vinci - Royal Collection Trust
Florence, to 1481. Leonardo was born in 1452 near the town of Vinci in central Italy. He was the illegitimate son of a lawyer and a peasant girl and was raised in his paternal grandfather’s house. We know little else about his early years. By the age of 20 Leonardo was working as a painter in nearby Florence.
Scientists uncover portrait of Da Vinci as a young man
IT SOUNDS like a plot from a Dan Brown thriller but Italian researchers believe they have discovered a previously unknown self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci drawn when the artist was a young man.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) is one of the most intriguing personalities in the history of Western art. Trained in Florence as a painter and sculptor in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio (1435–1488), Leonardo is also celebrated for his scientific contributions.