Leonardo da vinci & michelangelo biography
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Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Raffaello Sanzio, A Comparison
Century: 1500 - The 16th Century
Reinassance Art and Architecture in Italy
Leonardo born at Vinci in 1452, Michelangelo born at Caprese in 1475, Raffaello born at Urbino in 1483.
At 15 Leonardo is sent to Florence to work as apprentice to Andrea Verrocchio. In 1482 Leonardo moves to Milan to work in the service of the city's duke, Ludovico Sforza. He gains the title of "Painter and Engineer of the duke. In 1499 with the duke Ludovico Sforza's fall from power, Da Vinci leaves Milan and spends a short time in Venice. 1502 Leonardo begins work as senior military architect and general engineer for Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI. 1516 The king of France invites Leonardo to komma work for him. 1519 May 2, Leonardo dies in France.
In 1492 Michelangelo goes in Venice then Bologna after the expulsion of the Medici
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The earliest encounters
The two great masters were not of the same generation. Leonardo was born in Vinci in 1452, the illegitimate son of a young lawyer and a peasant girl. By 1500, his career had embraced some youthful years in Florence, and a period in Milan from 1482–99, marked not least by The Last Supper. Michelangelo, born in 1475, was from a ‘good’ family, the son of Lodovico Buonarroti, who sometimes worked as a minor Florence official. The young Michelangelo had completed the Bacchus and Pietà in Rome, but there was no public evidence of his abilities in Florence. In 1501 he was commissioned to make something of a massive marble block in the cathedral workshop. This was to become his David.
The first encounter of the artists took place when Leonardo was appointed to a committee to determine where to place the David. After much discussion the huge sculpture was placed in the square outside the Palazzo della Signoria (now called Palazzo Vecchio), headquarters of the ru
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Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452–1519)
"Da Vinci" redirects here. For other uses, see Da Vinci (disambiguation) and Leonardo da Vinci (disambiguation).
In this Renaissance Florentine name, the name da Vinci is an indicator of birthplace, not a family name; the person is properly referred to by the given name, Leonardo.
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci[b] (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he has also become known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and palaeontology. Leonardo is widely regarded to have been a genius who epitomised the Renaissance humanist ideal, and his collective works comprise a contribution to later generations of