Leonardo da Vinci was born on 15 April 1452 in Anchiano. An Italian painter, engineer and scientist of the High Renaissance, Leonardo trained in Florence in the workshop of Verrocchio and later worked for patrons in Milan, Rome and finally France. He painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, which are among the most famous artworks in the world. His notebooks, filled with drawings and notes written in mirror script, record studies of anatomy, flight, hydraulics, optics and machines, though few of his designs were built. He is regarded as the model of the universal genius. He spent his last years in France at the invitation of King Francis I.
Before and after
- from 1451 to 1950Construction of Berlin Palace
- 1451Birth of Christopher Columbus
- 7 January 1451Founding of University of Glasgow
- 22 April 1451Birth of Isabella I of Castile
- 15 April 1452Birth of Leonardo da Vinci
- 21 September 1452Birth of Girolamo Savonarola
- from 1453 to 1454Morea revolt of 1453–1454
- from 6 April 1453 to 29 May 1453Fall of Constantinople
- from 1454 to 1466Thirteen Years' War
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- 12th centuryPublication of Primary Chronicle
- c. 1260sPublication of Poetic Edda
- from 5 November 1414 to 22 April 1418Council of Constance
- c. 1485Painting of The Birth of Venus
- 1499Pietà (Michelangelo)
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