Verrocchio, one of the most respected artists of his time, was often helped by his students and assistants, so it is almost certain that the earliest evidences of Leonardo as a painter date from this period. Early in his teens, he moved with his family to Florence, and went to work in the studio of Andrea del Verrocchio. Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was born in 1452 near Vinci, in Tuscany. Image: Leonardo da Vinci: “Self-Portrait,” 1516.
Painter, sculptor, architect, scientist and researcher, the figure of Leonardo has generated a multitude of legends, myths, rumors about his homosexuality, about his membership or not in countless lodges or sects, strange stories about his stay in Verrocchio’s studio, or his apparently strange relationship with several of his models -apparently derived from his alleged homosexuality – form the long list of Leonardo’s mythology of which the successes of “The Da Vinci Code” and the “Leonardo” TV series are only the most recent examples. In all the history of Art, no other name has generated more debates, more discussions and more hours of study than the genius born in Vinci in 1452. There is no artist more legendary than Leonardo da Vinci. The life and work of Leonardo da Vinci, focusing on his paintings, and debating attributions. A review of all the legends and mysteries about the famous Renaissance painter.
0 kommentar(er)
