leonardo de vinci

1452
Leonardo is born on April 15 in the village of Anchiano, near the town of Vinci.

1467

At 15 Leonardo is sent to Florence to work as apprentice to Andrea De Verrocchio.


1472
20 year-old Leonardo is accepted into the painters' guild of Florence.


1476
Leonardo is accused of sodomy; he is publicly humiliated although the charges are later dropped.


1478
The Annunciation is painted. The work, initially credited to Da Vinci, is now believed to have been painted by Lorenzo di Credi.

 1481

Leonardo begins work on The Adoration of the Magi, an altarpiece for the Monastery of San Donato at Scopeto.
He sketches many studies.


1482
Leonardo moves to Milan to work in the service of the city's duke, Ludovico Sforza. He gains the title of "painter and engineer of the duke.


1483
Leonardo paints the Virgin of the Rocks.


1485
Leonardo paints Lady with an Ermine.


1495
Leonardo begins work on The Last Supper in the refectory of the convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan.


1498
The Last Supper is completed.


1499
With the duke Ludovico Sforza'a fall from power, Da Vinci leaves Milan and spends a short time in Venice.


1500
Leonardo begins painting the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, a project that he only finishes after 10 years.


1500
Leonardo returns to Florence.


1502
Leonardo begins work as senior military architect and general engineer for Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI.


1503
Leonardo is commissioned to paint the Mona Lisa.


1503
Leonardo is commission to paint a mural for the council hall in Florence's Palazzo Vecchio, which is to be the Battle of Anghiari, a work that would remain unfinished.


1515
Leonardo paints St. John the Baptist.


1516
The king of France invites Leonardo to come work for him.


1519
May 2, Leonardo dies in France.

Rembrandt

                                               Rembrandt wife was Saskia and  he painted her .

Born in Leeuwarden, Saskia was the youngest of eight children of Rombertus van Uylenburgh, a top lawyer, a town burgomaster and one of the founders of the University of Franeker. Saskia (in Friesland called Saske) became an orphan at age twelve, following the death of her mother, Sjoukje Ozinga, and her father five years later. Saskia met Rembrandt by way of her cousin, Hendrick van Uylenburgh, a painter and an art dealer, whose parents had emigrated to Kraków in Poland, but in 1625 Hendrick decided to move to Amsterdam. From 1631 Rembrandt produced paintings for Uylenburg's Amsterdam and Mennonite clients.[citation needed]
The couple married on June 22, 1634 in Het Bildt, where Saskia had been raised by her sister Hiskje and the husband Gerard van Loo, a lawyer and local city secretary. For a while Saskia had lived in Franeker when her sister, Antje, died. After the burial Saskia helped out her brother-in-law, the Polish professor, Johannes Maccovius, busy teaching theology. in 1639 he and Saskia moved to a prominent house in the Jodenbreestraat.

Leonardo de vinci

                         Leonardo was born on April 15, 1452, "at the third hour of the night" in the Tuscan hill town of Vinci, in the lower valley of the Arno River in the territory of Florence.  His full birth name was "Lionardo di ser Piero da Vinci" 

He was the illegitimate (born to unmarried parents) son of Ser Piero da Vinci, a prominent notary (a public official who certifies legal documents) of Florence, and a local woman, Caterina.
He spent his first five years in the hamlet of Anchiano in the home of his mother, then from 1457 lived in the household of his father, grandparents and uncle, Francesco, in the small town of Vinci. His father had married a sixteen-year-old girl named Albiera, who loved Leonardo but died young.Leonardo received an informal education in Latin, geometry and mathematics but did not show any particular signs of aptitude.

When Leonardo was sixteen his father married again, twenty-year-old Francesca Lanfredini. It was not until his third and fourth marriages that Ser Piero produced legitimate heirs.

Rambrandt

Rembrandt

Rembrandt  began to paint dramaticly bibliac and mythological scense in high cintrast and larg format in his early years in Amsterdam (1632 -1636).In the end of 1630s  he orady produced a few paintings of landscapes.His work in 1640 became less exuberant and more sobe in tone.