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Leonardo da Vinci

Italian Renaissance polymath (1452−1519)

21 dated entries naming Leonardo da Vinci, drawn from 20 separate years between 1461 CE and 2017 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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15th century

  • 1461Leonardo da Vinci and Sandro Botticelli become students of Verrocchio.source
  • 1472June – Leonardo da Vinci is admitted as a master in his own right to the artists' Guild of Saint Luke in Florence. An entry is made in the register of the Compagnia di San Luca reading "Anno Domini 1472— Leonardo, son of Ser Piero da Vinci, painter, to pay the sum of 6 sol, for the whole month of June 1472, for the remittance of his debt to the Company until July 1472... and to pay for the whole of November 1472, 5 sol due on 18 October 1472."source
  • 1476Leonardo da Vinci is acquitted on charges of sodomy, after which he disappears from the historical record for two years.source
  • 1485From about this date, Leonardo da Vinci produces a number of designs for flying machines, including the aerial screw or helicopter (probably unworkable).source
  • 1490Leonardo da Vinci observes capillary action, in small-bore tubes.source
  • 1493Leonardo da Vinci creates the first known design for a helicopter.source
  • 1498February 9 – Leonardo da Vinci completes his painting The Last Supper, on the refectory wall of Milan's Santa Maria delle Grazie Convent. Because the location is a thin exterior wall, the effects of humidity and moisture-retaining rock behind the wall begin to cause the painting to deteriorate.source
  • 1499October 26 – King Louis XII of France and his troops seize Milan, driving out Duke Ludovico Sforza, and Leonardo da Vinci flees to Venice.source

16th century

  • 1503October – Earliest record of Leonardo da Vinci working on a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo, probably the Mona Lisa, in Florence.source
  • 1504In Florence, Leonardo da Vinci and Niccolò Machiavelli become involved in a scheme to divert the Arno River, cutting the water supply to Pisa to force its surrender: Colombino, the project foreman, fails to follow da Vinci's design, and the project is a major failure.source
  • 1504The Signoria of Florence commissions both Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo to paint the walls of the Grand Council Chamber in the Palazzo Vecchio.source
  • 1506Leonardo da Vinci completes most of his work on the Mona Lisa.source
  • 1508March 22 – Working from the house of Piero di Braccio Martelli at Florence, Leonardo da Vinci begins writing his "collection without order" of his scientific discoveries.source
  • 1509June 11 – Luca Pacioli's De divina proportione, concerning the golden ratio, is published in Venice, with illustrations by Leonardo da Vinci.source
  • 1516Leonardo da Vinci accepts Francis I's invitation to France.source
  • 1517June 19 – Luca Pacioli, Mathematician, collaborator with Leonardo da Vinci and 'father of accounting' (b. c. 1447)source

20th century

  • 1911August 21 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is stolen from the Louvre museum in Paris by Vincenzo Peruggia; the painting is returned in 1913.source
  • 1962December 14 – Leonardo da Vinci's early 16th-century painting the Mona Lisa is assessed for insurance purposes at US$100 million before touring the United States for several months, the highest insurance value for a painting in history. However, the Louvre, its owner, chooses to spend the money that would have been spent on the insurance premium on security instead.source
  • 1967February 13 – American researchers discover the Madrid Codices by Leonardo da Vinci in the National Library of Spain.source
  • 1999May 28 – After 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper is placed back on display in Milan, Italy.source

21st century

  • 2017November 15 – A Leonardo da Vinci painting, Salvator Mundi, sells for US$450 million at Christie's in New York, a new record price for any work of art.source

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