Leonardo da Vinci died on 2 May 1519 in Clos Lucé, aged 67. 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
- 1 January 1519Origins of Reformed Christianity
- 1519Construction of Château de Chambord
- 1519Birth of Jacopo Tintoretto
- from February 1519 to August 1521Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire
- 2 May 1519Death of Leonardo da Vinci
- from 10 August 1519 to 8 September 1522Magellan-Elcano expedition
- from 1520 to 1600Mannerism
- from 1520 to 1648Sultanate of Women
- 1520Stockholm Bloodbath
More in Art, literature & culture
- c. 1500sMona Lisa
- 18 April 1506Construction of St. Peter's Basilica
- from 31 October 1517 to 1 January 1648Protestant Reformation
- 1605Publication of Don Quixote
- from 1660 to 1725Rise of Classicism
- from c. 1730s to 1780sRise of Rococo
The era
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