Who were Leonardo da Vinci's contemporaries?
Leonardo da Vinci lived from 1452 to 1519, between the fall of Constantinople and the dawn of the Reformation.
Leonardo da Vinci's lifespan is highlighted. The other bars show some notable contemporaries.
Meanwhile, in the same years.
A new continent
In 1492, when Leonardo was 40 and at work in Milan, a new continent entered the European map. The world he knew changed within his own lifetime.
Two giants, one hall
Around 1504, Florence hired both Leonardo and the much younger Michelangelo to paint battle scenes on facing walls of the same hall. Neither was ever finished, and both are now lost.
The Reformation begins
In 1517, Martin Luther nailed his theses to a church door in Wittenberg. Leonardo spent his final years in France and died in 1519, before they grew into the great split that divided Europe.
A new picture of the heavens
In Leonardo's later years, a young Nicolaus Copernicus was reworking the cosmos. His Sun-centred model would reshape astronomy, though it reached print only after Leonardo's death.
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