Leonardo da Vinci
Born on:
15. April 1452
Deceased on:
2. May 1519
Father:
Ser Piero da Vinci (1429-1504), son of Antonio da Vinci (1373-1469) and Lucia (1393-after 1469)
Mother:
Caterina or Chateria, with whom Leonardo's father had a short love affair; she married Achattabriga di Piero del Vaccha in 1457
Half-siblings:
from the third marriage of his father to Marguerita di Francesco di Jacopo di Guglielmo (1458 - c. 1486):
- his half-brother Antonio, born in 1476, deceased in 1490
- his half-sister Maddalena, born and deceased in 1477
- his half-brother Giuliano, born in 1479, deceased after 1519
- his half-brother Lorenzo, born in 1484, deceased around 1486
- his half-sister Violanta, born in 1485, deceased after 1504
- his half-brother Domenico, born in 1486, deceased after 1504
- his half-sister Margherita, born in 1491, deceased after 1504
- his half-brother Benedetto, born in 1492, deceased after 1504
- his half-brother Pandolfo, born in 1494, deceased after 1504
- his half-brother Guglielmo, born in 1496, deceased after 1504
- his half-brother Bartolomeo, born in 1497, deceased after 1529
- his half-brother Giovanni, born in 1498, deceased after 1513
- his illegitimate half-brother Gian Giacomo Caprotti, called Salaì, born in 1480, deceased in 1524
- his illegitimate half-brother Lorenzo, born in 1487/88, deceased after 1513
from the fourth marriage of his father to Lucrezia di Guglielmo Cortigiani (1464-after 1520):
Spouse:
Isabella of Aragon (1470-1524), Duchess of Milan (clandestine marriage in 1497)
Children:
two sons and three daughters: Francesco, born in 1498, Giovanna, born in 1502, Maria, born in 1503, Antonio, born in 1506, and Isabella, born in 1510
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Reading Suggestions:
- Maike Vogt-Luerssen: Who is Mona Lisa? – In Search of Her Identity (in German). Norderstedt 2003
- Discovery of a New Selfportrait of Leonardo da Vinci!
- Maike Vogt-Luerssen: The Sforza III: Isabella of Aragon - and her Court Painter Leonardo da Vinci (in German). Norderstedt 2010
- Leonardo da Vinci, das Château du Cloux (heute Clos Lucé genannt) und das Schloss von Amboise