DE VINCI cushion cover - Horse (ecru)

Main works

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

Artistic movements

Triumphant Renaissance.

Inspiration, influence

His master was Andrea del Verrocchio, a painter and sculptor. Leonardo da Vinci learned his craft with this artist, who was one of Lorenzo de' Medici's favorites. When Andrea del Verrocchio realized that Leonardo had surpassed him, he stopped painting to devote himself to sculpture.

His contemporaries

Botticelli, Perugino as far as the painters are concerned. The Medici family, who would become some of his patrons, before, in that role, the Sforzas, the Duke of Milan, and even Francis I, who brought him back to France after Marignano, with "The Mona Lisa" in their luggage!!

To keep in mind

Trained by Verrocchio, Leonardo da Vinci is a painter, sculptor, goldsmith, blacksmith and metal caster. An architect and engineer, with a knowledge of the human body that surpasses that of the physicians of his time, he is the universal man of that Renaissance in which, for the last time, a man can bring together all the knowledge then known.

To go further

It was François Ier, admiring and even full of tenderness for the Italian master, who brought him back to France and gave him the Château du Clos Lucé, where he would be "free to dream, to think and to work." Da Vinci then inspired French fashion, thought, and even philosophy.