HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Michelangelo
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Donatello
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Raphael
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Detailed explanation-1: -Leonardo da Vinci was an artist and engineer who is best known for his paintings, notably the Mona Lisa (c. 1503–19) and the Last Supper (1495–98). His drawing of the Vitruvian Man (c. 1490) has also become a cultural icon.
Detailed explanation-2: -This is the very first painting that Leonardo da Vinci ever made, at least among those that have survived to the present day. And without considering drawings and sketches. It is the Baptism of Christ, made with oil and tempera on wooden panel.
Detailed explanation-3: -When he was 20, in 1472, the painters’ guild of Florence offered da Vinci membership, but he remained with Verrocchio until he became an independent master in 1478. Around 1482, he began to paint his first commissioned work, The Adoration of the Magi, for Florence’s San Donato, a Scopeto monastery.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Louvre, Paris One of the largest museums in the world, The Louvre is well known for being the home of da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, the earliest Italian painting to focus intently on the sitter in a half-length portrait.