Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was an Italian painter, draftsman, engineer and scientist of the High Renaissance, often seen as the model “Renaissance man.” Born near Vinci in Tuscany, he trained in Florence in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio. Around 1482 he moved to Milan to serve Duke Ludovico Sforza, a turning point that brought nearly two decades of work as painter, engineer and designer; there he painted The Last Supper on the refectory wall of Santa Maria delle Grazie. Back in Florence, he began the Mona Lisa, admired for its subtle modeling and serene expression. His notebooks, thousands of pages of which survive, record studies of anatomy, flight, water, light and machines, alongside drawings such as the Vitruvian Man. Invited to France by King Francis I, he spent his last years near Amboise. His union of art and science still inspires artists, inventors and scholars.
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Masters of the Renaissance
Donatello revived the spirit of classical sculpture in early fifteenth-century Florence, preparing the way for the High Renaissance. Leonardo painted The Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, Michelangelo carved David and painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling, and Raphael created The School of Athens in the Vatican. North of the Alps, Albrecht Dürer absorbed Italian ideas on journeys to Venice and exchanged works with Raphael, carrying the Renaissance to Germany.
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