Da Vinci earrings - Sketches n°2 (silver finish)

Main works

"The Mona Lisa", "The Vitruvian Man", "The Last Supper", "Study of a Horse", "The Annunciation", "The Lady with an Ermine".

Artistic movements

Triumphant Renaissance.

Inspiration, influence

His Master, Andrea del Verrocchio, was a painter and sculptor. Da Vinci learned the trade with this artist who was one of the favorites of Lorenzo de Medici. When Andrea del Verrocchio realized that da Vinci was superior to him, he stopped painting to dedicate himself to sculpture.

His contemporaries

Botticelli, Perugino are among the painters. The Medici family will be among his patrons, before Sforza, the Duke of Milan, and then François I, who will bring him back to France after Marignan, with "Mona Lisa" in their luggage!!

To keep in mind

Trained by Verrocchio, De Vinci is a painter, sculptor, goldsmith, blacksmith, and founder.... Architect, engineer, possessing a knowledge of the human body that surpasses that of the doctors of the time, he is the universal man of this Renaissance period where, for the last time, a man can gather all the known knowledge of the era.

To go further

It is François I, full of admiration and even tenderness for the Italian master, who brings him back to France and offers him the Château du Clos Lucé where he will be "free to dream, think, and work". Leonardo da Vinci then inspires French fashion, thought, and even philosophy.