Wall Clock Mona Lisa Leonardo da Vinci 40 x 40 cm Beautiful, original polished glass clock with the famous work of Leonardo da Vinci "Mona Lisa" from 1503 conducted as silkscreen on frosted glass. Although his name suggests that Leonardo was born in Vinci, this is highly questionable. His birthplace - a contemporary tourist attraction - is in Anchiano, a village near Vinci in the territory of the city of Florence. Both his father and forefathers were a number notaio, notary. This makes his birth date and name have survived. "Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (Leonardo, son of Mr. Piero from Vinci) wrote his grandfather in the family book. Leonardo was an illegitimate child of Piero and Chat Aria, Caterina, a peasant girl. This classic study, he could not follow. Leonardo grew up in rural areas, and probably spent at least the first year his mother suckling him. What happened next is uncertain. According to the Register of Vinci in 1457 Lionardo lived with his father Piero and his wife Albiera. Career He became an apprentice painter (painter apprentice) to Andrea del Verrocchio and later an independent painter. From 1482-1499 he worked for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, where he had his own studio, including apprentices. When the French occupied Milan, he returned to Florence, where he began working for Cesare Borgia as a military architect and engineer. In 1506 he returned to Milan. From 1513-1516 he lived in Rome, then the much younger painters Raphael and Michelangelo worked, with whom he had little contact. In 1516 Leonardo went to work for King Francis I of France in the castle of Amboise. Pupils Like any great artist Leonardo had many pupils. Giacomo Salai came in 1490. This was followed by Marco d'Oggiono. A year later, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio (° ± 1467-1516) joined them. In 1507, during his stay in Milan, Leonardo took the nobleman Francesco (da) Melzi (aka da Melzo, alias Francis Meltius) to. Other students were from Peretola Zoroastro, Riccio Fiorentino, Ferrando the Llanos (the Spaniard), Giampetrino, perhaps Francesco Napoletano, and a few others of less importance. But because of the erratic lifestyle of Leonardo, he could not really develop school or studio. Salai and Melzi were listed in the "Vite" by Giorgio Vasari (1550). Death He died in the French Cloux and is buried in the Chapel of St. Hubert in the castle of Amboise in Amboise. Clos-Luce is a manor house in Amboise which was inhabited by Leonardo da Vinci. It is now a museum about the life and work of Leonardo da Vinci. It has many examples of his inventions. Controversial Leonardo was, with all his talents that you already recognized during his life, his time as a controversial person. In part because of its artistic qualities, he received several orders from the Church to produce religious art, especially painting. The "Last Supper" is a famous example of this. Leonardo stood his entire working lives under the protection of influential people, one time even below the pope himself. Although the church was already quite flexible, anatomical examination was permitted on a small scale, there was no lighting, witness the trial of Galileo Galilei more than a century after Leonardo da Vinci's death. Leonardo also had a collision with the pope. On a manuscriptvel he noted that the Pope, at whose court he resided, had caught him on anatomical research on human corpses. Also in one of his notes states: "The sun stands still" finding, according to some, a reference to a heliocentric view against the prevailing dogma entered. Character According to most biographers was Leonardo's most prominent character trait that he often enthusiastically to a new assignment or interest began but then very often did not complete the work begun. Many examples of this are especially with his artistic assignments. But he had almost his whole life plan for a comprehensive encyclopedia that he never completed. Leonardo often made many sketches to make great paintings, which often were not completed. In 1481 he was commissioned to the altarpiece "The Adoration of the Magi" to make, but he moved to Milan before it was finished. There he spent many years in the design of a monumental, eight meters high bronze equestrian statue in honor of the former Prince Francesco Sforza. This project was never realized, but because of the war with France. On the initiative of individuals, a similar statue in 1999 in New York made and donated to the city of Milan. When Leonardo was in Florence returned, he was commissioned a large public mural making. (Michelangelo was painting the wall opposite. The other two were also not at all.) After many trials before he left town. Leonardo seems never to have had an intimate relationship with a woman. In 1476 he was anonymously accused of homosexual relations with a 17-year-old model, Jacopo Saltarelli the notorious prostitute. This happened quite often that time is probably a form of defamation was. Along with three others Leonardo was acquitted for lack of evidence of a charge of homosexual behavior, but all were still some time monitored by the agents Night "of Florence, a kind of morality police. The speculation about his homosexuality is primarily fueled by a statement of Sigmund Freud. Freud's ideas and methods used by some critics, including CG Jung, strongly questioned, as are his analysis of Leonardo. See the discussion in that regard in the German journal for the history of psychoanalysis "Luzifer-Amor" (Heft 10, 1992) when the subject is treated extensively. The Mona Lisa Vitruvian man: Leonardo da Vinci signs the ideal human body based on a pentagon with the ratio of 1:1,618 the golden section Leonardo is famous paintings as the Mona Lisa (also called "La Gioconda"), now in the Paris Louvre museum and the Last Supper mural ("Ultima Cena" or "Cenacolo, Milan). This second work was due to an experimental fresco technique he had used in his own time, deteriorated rapidly. The Abbey is a faithful copy of Tongerlo on canvas of the Last Supper in a perfect state of preservation, which it is assumed that the master himself the heads of Jesus and John has painted. Only seventeen of his paintings and his sculptures are not preserved. Most of the drawings are kept in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle in England. They are owned by Queen Elizabeth.