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A Leonardo Chronology

1452   April 15th. Birth at Vinci, a village near Prato.
1469-76   In Verrocchio's studio in Florence.
1472-75   Uffizi Annunciation. Ginevera Benci.
1475-78   Benois Madonna.
1478   Madonna with the Carnation. Louvre Annunciation.
1480-81   St. Jerome. Adoration of the Magi.
1482-99   In Milan, with Lodovico Sforza as patron.
1483   Louvre Virgin of the Rocks.
1484   At work on equestrian staute of Lodovico's father.
1485   Lady with an Ermine. Notebooks under way.
1490   Musician.
1493   Model of horse for Sforza statue exhibited.
1497   The Last Supper. La Belle Ferronière.
1498   Virgin and Child with St.Anne and St.John.
1499   Sforza period ended by French capture of Milan.
1500   In Mantua, Venice, and Florence.
1502   In the Romagna as engineer for Cesare Borgia.
1503-06   In Florence. Battle of Anghiari and Mona Lisa begun.
1506-13   In Milan, with Louis XII as indirect patron.
1506-08   London Virgin of the Rocks.
1510   Virgin and Child and St.Anne.
1513-16   St. John the Baptist.
1513-16   In Rome, with Giuliano de' Medici as patron.
1517-19   In France, with Francis I as patron.
1519   May 2. Death at manor of Cloux, near Amboise.

Note: Many of the above dates, in particular those given to paintings, are only approximate.
Source: Mona Lisa - The Picture and the Myth, Roy McMullen

Did you know?
The subtlety of expression and glow of faces depicted by Leonardo is attributed in part to his practice of painting by the soft light of dusk with a linen sheet drawn overhead to further diffuse the illumination.

Mona Lisa viewers at the Louvre in 1952. Photographer: Robert Doisneau
   
 
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