Visual Timeline: Leonardo da Vinci

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1452 CE - 1519 CE: Life of the great Italian artist, scientist and inventor Leonardo da Vinci.
 
1452 CE: Birth of Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci.
 
1464 CE: Leonardo da Vinci enrols as an apprentice in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence.
 
1472 CE: Leonardo da Vinci completes his apprenticeship as an artist in Florence.
 
1472 CE: Leonardo da Vinci completes his painting 'The Annunciation'.
 
 
1482 CE: Leonardo da Vinci moves to Milan where he works for Ludovico Sforza.
 
1483 CE: Leonardo da Vinci completes his oil on panel painting 'Virgin of the Rocks'.
 
1490 CE: Leonardo da Vinci completes his portrait of Ludovico Sforza’s mistress Cecilia Gallerani, 'The Lady with an Ermine'.
 
1492 CE: Leonardo da Vinci completes his 'Vitruvian Man' sketch.
 
 
1498 CE: Leonardo da Vinci completes his wall mural 'The Last Supper' in Milan's Sante Maria delle Grazie.
 
 
1500 CE: The Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci visits Venice.
 
 
1502 CE: Leonardo da Vinci moves to Rome where he works for Cesare Borgia to sort out the city’s canals.
 
 
1502 CE: Leonardo da Vinci produces his precise overhead view map of Imola, the first map of its kind.
 
1503 CE: Leonard da Vinci completes his coloured charcoal illustration 'Virgin and Child with St. Anne'.
 
 
1503 CE: Leonardo da Vinci returns to Florence to work on proposals for a battle scene mural in the city’s Council Hall.
 
1503 CE - 1506 CE: Leonardo da Vinci completes his painting the 'Mona Lisa'.
 
1515 CE: Leonardo da Vinci completes his painting 'St. John the Baptist '.
 
 
1517 CE: Leonardo da Vinci moves to France to work for Francis I of France.
 
 
1519 CE: Leonardo da Vinci dies at Chateau Cloux (aka Clos Lucé) in France.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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