Da Vinci, bottom left corner, and sketches of his investigations about anatomy.
" Wisdom is the daughter of experience "
Here's a time line of Da Vinci's life:
1467 - Leonardo Becomes An Apprentice To Andrea Del Verrocchio, In Florence.
1469 - Lorenzo And Giuliano De Medici Become New Rulers Of Florence.
1472 - Leonardo Becomes A Member Of The Florence Painters' Guild.
1473 - Leonardo Draws A Landscape On The Feast Of Santa Maria Delle Neve.
1475 - Michelangelo Born
1476 - Leonardo Charged With Sodomy On April 9; The Case Is Dismissed June 16.
1477 - Leonardo Had At Least Some Part In The Painting The Annunciation To The Virgin, Completed Around This Time.
1478 - Leonardo writes in his notebooks that he has begun "two Virgin Marys." He also paints the Portrait of Ginevra de Benci around this time.
1481 - Leonardo Receives A Commission To Paint The Adoration Of The Magi. The painting was never completed, yet was–and is–considered a masterpiece.
1482 - Leonardo Moves From Florence To Milan, Entering The Patronage Of Ludovico Sforza. By this time, Leonardo is writing in his notebooks regularly.
1483 - Leonardo Receives A Commission To Paint The Virgin Of The Rocks.
1490 - Leonardo Begins Work In Earnest On The Bronze Horse For His Patron Ludovico Sforza. Leonardo Begins A Book On Landscape And Hydraulic Works; It Is Never Finished.
1492 - Lorenzo De Medici Dies; Columbus Goes To The New World.
1493 - A Woman Named Caterina, Possibly Leonardo's Mother, Possibly A Servant, Becomes A Member Of His Household In Milan.
1495 - Leonardo Begins His Last Supper In The Convent Of Santa Maria Delle Grazie.
1496 - Leonardo Illustrates Mathematician Fra Luca Pacioli's De Divina Proportione.
1498 - Leonardo Decorates The Walls And Ceiling Of The Sala Delle Asse. He Also Made His First Attempts At Planning A Flying Machine Around This Time.
1499 - The French Army Conquers Milan; Leonardo Leaves.
1500 - Leonardo And Pacioli Go To Mantua, Then Leonardo Continues On To Florence.
1502 - Leonardo Becomes Cesare Borgia's Military Engineer. Leonardo travels around the Romagna, inspecting fortifications.
1503 - Back In Florence, Leonardo Begins The Battle Of Anghiari.Also, in 1503 Florence tries to divert the Arno River away from Pisa in order to defeat Pisa in war.
1505 - Leonardo Makes A Second Attempt To Build A Flying Machine And Begins Sketches For The Mona Lisa, Which He Completes
1507 - Leonardo Is Appointed Louis XII's Painter And Engineer.
1513 - Leonardo Moves To Rome. Living in the Vatican, he studies the properties of mirrors.
1515 - Leonardo constructs a mechanical lion for the coronation of the new king of France, Francis I.
1516 - Leonardo Permanently Leaves Italy For France, Where He Will Serve Francis I In His Court In Amboise.
