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Leonardo Da Vinci Timeline
Leonardo Da Vinci Timeline
How he helped shape the Renaissance. How did Leonardo da Vinci contribute to his profession
and its development through time? How did that particular event help further his courier?
8. 1500 Leonardo starts painting the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne. This
project took ten years to complete.
9. 1500 Leonardo Da Vinci returns to Florence.
10.1502 Leonardo undertakes work as a senior military architect and general
engineer for Cesare Borgia, which was the son of Pope Alexander VI (The
sixth).
11. 1503 Leonardo is commissioned to paint the Mona Lisa. This took six
years to officially complete and is one of his most great and famous
paintings. It was famous for her mysterious smile when music from a piano
was played. When he had finished painting, the king of France decided to
buy it. Leonardo did not want to be separated from the portrait, so the king
let him keep it in his studio until he died.
12. 1515 Leonardo paints St. John the Baptist. This painting was one of his
only possessions with him when he died, as he had only painted it four years
prior.
13. 1516 Leonardo is asked by the King of France to come work for him as
his honoured guest. And with three paintings (the Mona Lisa, The Last
Supper, and the St. John the Baptist), a few belongings, and one apprentice
he set off for his new home.
14. 1519 On the second of May, Leonardo dies in France. Legend has it that
King Francis had come to visit him the day of his death. He sat down on the
side of Leonardos bed and put his arm around him to support him. Leonardo
then confessed that he had wasted too much of his life and his talent. He
then died in the arms of the King.