Representatives D A V I N C I A N D V A S A R I

Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was one of the people best known in history, he was a painter, inventor, sculptor, architect, engineer and astronomer

The Italian was born in Anchiano, Italy, on April 15, 1452 and died in Amboise, France, on May 2, 1519

His figure perfectly embodies the ideal of the Renaissance man: a polymath versed in different disciplines, both in the arts like science As an inventor, he laid out the ideas of what would later become such disparate devices and devices as the parachute, the helicopter and the tank, although the technological level of his time made it impossible for him to see them come true His most universal legacy is in the field of painting

His best-known works in the world of art were the painting of "La mona Lisa", "La Última

Dinner”, etc He was the illegitimate and first-born son of the notary Piero Fruosino di Antonio da Vinci, and Caterina Buti del Vacca, a peasant. In 1472 he was admitted to the painters' guild of Florence, and in 1476 he is still mentioned as assistant to Verrocchio, in whose work The Baptism of Christ Da Vinci was one of the pioneers in proposing experimentation as the basis of the modern scientific method, but he was also a precursor of Renaissance humanism that gave rise to freedom and Human Rights

Giorgio Vasari

Giorgio Vasari was an Italian architect, painter, and writer. Considered one of the first art historians, he is famous for his biographies of Italian artists, collection of data, anecdotes, legends and curiosities collected in his book "The lives of the most architects, painters and Italian sculptors"

He was born on July 30, 1511 in Arezzo (Republic of Florence) And he died on June 27, 1574 in Florence (Grand Duchy of Tuscany)

During his childhood he frequented the workshops of various artists from the city from which he learned painting and architecture and acquired a Some training in the humanities This artist, who earned his living as a painter and architect, spent to history primarily as a historian: a man of a vast culture for its time and condition

His work paid off to the point that he was able to have himself built a house, today enabled as the Casa Vasari Museum