Leonardo da Vinci: "Non Si Volta Chi a Stella è Fisso - He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind"

Biography of Leonardo da Vinci	Works devoted to Leonardo da Vinci	Description, analysis of the Leonardo's works
Leonardo da Vinci's works	Secrets and mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci	Books, sites about Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci
(1452 - 1519)
The great Italian painter and sculptor, researcher, scientist, mathematician, engineer and inventor, architect, geologist, cartographer, chemist, botanist, anatomist, philosopher, poet, writer and musician. He is the author of numerous discoveries, projects and research, far ahead of the era.
Name variations:
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
Vinci, Leonardo da
Da Vinci, Leonardo

Signature of the
Leonardo da Vinci

Date and place of birth		Date and place of death		Burial place
April 15 1452	Italy the Tuscan town of Vinci (west of Florence)	May 2 1519	France Amboise Castle of Saint-Cloud	Chapel of St. Hubert, the Chateau Amboise

Main milestones da Vinci:
Childhood of Leonardo	*1452 - 1464*	Vinci
The first period of Florentine life and work	*1464 - 1482*	Florence
The first Milanese period of life and work	*1483 - 1499*	Milan
The second period of Florentine life and work	*1500 - 1506*	Florence
Milan second period of his life and work	*1506 - 1513*	Milan
Roman period of life and work	*1513 - 1516*	Rome
The last years of life of Leonardo da Vinci	*1516 - 1519*	Amboise, France

Leonardo da Vinci's works Click to enlarge (opens in a new window)
Self-portrait Leonardo da Vinci	Vitruvian Man Study of proportions	"Last Supper" painting may include two Leonardo da Vinci self-portraits?	Self-portrait and Raphael's portrait of Leonardo

Da Vinci quotes: Non mi legga, chi non e matematico nelli mia principi

BIOGRAPHY of Leonardo da Vinci

•	Biography	Leonardo da Vinci
•	Maurice W. Brockwell	Biography Leonardo da Vinci - Leonardo was a SUPERMAN

Articles, abstracts about his life and work
•	Sister Wendy Beckett	Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Polymath

Leonardo da Vinci and modernity

Secrets and mysteries of Leonardo da Vinci
•	Is it really a self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci? Is the Self Portrait Authentic?
•	"Last Supper" painting may include two Leonardo da Vinci self-portraits?
•	"Vitruvian Man" - it could be a self-portrait
•	An image processing of a Raphael's portrait of Leonardo
*Read more about the secrets of Leonardo da Vinci HERE:*

DESCRIPTION AND ANALYSIS paintings by Leonardo da Vinci:
"MONA LISA"
	Maurice W. Brockwell	"Portrait of Mona Lisa"
"Last Supper"
	Maurice W. Brockwell	The "Last Supper"
"VIRGIN IN the ROCKS"
	Public Notes	There are two versions of the "Virgin of the Rocks"
	Article	The "Virgin or Madonna of the Rocks"
	Maurice W. Brockwell	The "Virgin of the Rocks"
"BATTLE of ANGHIARI"
	Maurice W. Brockwell	"Battle of Anghiari"
"JOHN THE BAPTIST"

"Vitruvian Man"

Works devoted to Leonardo da Vinci
		Leonardo da Vinci in the image of Plato Enlarged detail of the "School of Athens"

Prima morte che stanchezza! - Rather death than fatigue!

Supposed the remains Leonardo da Vinci, dug (1869) on the place of the old chapel of St. Flora, were moved to the chapel
St. Hubert, the Chateau Amboise, and placed under a stone, on which are inscribed the following words:

Sous cette Pierre Reposent Des Ossements
Recueillis Dans Les Pouilles De L'Ancienne
Chapelle Rojale D'Amboise Parmi Lesquels On Suppose
Que se Trouve La Depouille Mortelle De Leonard De Vinci.
Ne En 1452.
Mort En 1519.

	Sources: books, sites about Leonardo da Vinci
•	Leonardo da Vinci: Scritti letter, a cura di A. Marinoni, Rizzoli, Milano 1974
•	Giorgio Vasari, Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects. Publisher Torrentino (1550), Giunti (1568)
•	Leonardo el'eta delta ragione, a cura di L. Bellone e P. Rossi, Edizioni di "Scientia", Milano 1982.
•	Clark Ê., Leonardo da Vinci, Camb., 1969
•	E. Solmi, Scritti vinciani, La Nuova Italia, Firenze 1976
•	Esche E., Leonardo da Vinci. Das anatomische Werk, Basel, 1961
•	HARRY N. ABRAMS,INC, The Picture History of Painting (From Cave Painting to Modern Times), PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK, 1957
•	Hart I. Â., The mechanical investigations of Leonardo da Vinci, Berk. - Los Ang., 1963
•	Heydenreich L. H., Leonardo architetto. Firenze, 1963
•	Heydenreich L. H., Leonardo da Vinci, Bd 1-2, Basel, 1954
•	Pedretti C., Studi vinciani, Gen., 1957
•	Tateo F. Centri culturali dell'umanesimo. Bari: 1980.
•	Tateî F. Alberti, Leonardo e la crisi dell'umanesimo. 2 ed. Ban: Laterza, 1980.
•	Verga Å., Bibliografia vinciana. 1493-1930, v. 1-2, Bologna, 1931.
•	Gille Â. , Leonardo e gli ingegneri del Rinascimento, Feltrinelli, Milano 1972
•	Luporini Ñ., La mente di Leonardo. Sansoni, Firenze 1953
•	Kemp M. Leonardo da Vinci. Cambridge (Mass.), 1981.
•	Frank Zöllner, Leonardo da Vinci, Taschen, 2000.
•	Payne, Robert (1978). Leonardo (1st ed.). Doubleday. p. 344.
•	Feinberg, Larry J. The Young Leonardo: Art and Life in Fifteenth-Century Florence. Cambridge University Press. 2014.
•	Shana Priwer, Cynthia Phillips (2005). 101 things you didn't know about Da Vinci: the secrets of the world's most eccentric and innovative genius revealed! Adams Media
•	O. Letze, M.A. Grewenig et al., Leonardo da Vinci: uitvinder, wetenschapper en kunstenaar, Rotterdam 1995
•	M. Kemp, Leonardo da Vinci (Codex Leicester CD-ROM), Corbis, 1996
•	D.A. Brown, Leonardo da Vinci: origins of a genius, Yale 1998
•	F. Fehrenbach (ed.), Leonardo da Vinci: Natur im Übergang, München 2002
•	M. Kwakkelstein, 'The young Leonardo and the antique', in: A.W.A. Boschloo e.a., "Aux quatre vents" A Festschrift for Bert W. Meijer, Centro Di 2002, p. 25-32
•	F. Windt, Andrea del Verrocchio und Leonardo da Vinci. Zusammenarbeit in Skulptur und Malerei, Münster 2003
•	M. Kemp, Leonardo, Oxford U.P. 2004

ABC-People Home Page