As a master of many disciplines, Leonardo da Vinci epitomizes the ideal of the Renaissance man. He was a brilliant artist, visionary thinker, engineer, and scientist. Educated in Florence, he began his career in the service of Ludovico Sforza, the duke of Milan, where he lived and worked from around 1482 to 1499.
During that time, he connected with poets, mathematicians, philosophers, musicians, and other humanists at the court, stimulating his creative and intellectual practices. Jill Pederson, art historian and author of Leonardo, Bramante, and the Academia: Art and Friendship in Fifteenth-Century Milan, explores how Leonardo's presence in this dynamic environment shaped his artistic output in works like The Last Supper, Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani (also known as Lady with an Ermine), and the Vitruvian Man.
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