What's the place where Leonardo da Vinci stayed in Florence?

Answer 1

In 1466 Leonardo was apprenticed to one of the most proficient artists of his day, Andrea di Cione, known as Verrocchio. The workshop of this renowned master was at the centre of the intellectual currents of Florence, assuring the young Leonardo of an education in the humanities.

It is assumed that Leonardo had his own workshop in Florence between 1476 and 1481.

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Answer 2

Leonardo da Vinci arrived in Florence around the 1469, when his father Ser Piero d'Antonio, having noticed the premature artistic talents of his son, decided to indenture him to Andrea del Verrocchio's work shop. He remained there until 1476, even though in 1472 we find his name, as an independent painter, in the red Book of the creditors and of the debtors of the Company of Painters.

The first paintings by Leonardo date back to the years when he was Verrocchio's scholar. In fact, he collaborated to art works by the maestro around 1478: il Tobiolo e l'Angelo - the Tobiolo and the Angel - (London, National Gallery) and il Battesimo di Cristo - the Baptism of Christ - (Uffizi). It seems that Verrocchio, greatly impressed by the mastery of Leonardo, decided not to touch the colours anymore, mortified for having been surpassed by his scholar.
The versatility of Leonardo, and the constant desire to experiment brought him to begin many works, throughout the city of Florence - or in its surroundings -, without ever completing them: such as il San Girolamo (Pinacoteca Vaticana) around 1481, or the famous Adorazione de' Magi - the Adoration of the Three Wisemen - (Uffizi) requested in 1481 by the monks of Scopeto. In the same year, 1481, he left Florence directed to Milan, but hardly after two decades he was back in Florence. Around 1500 he presented the Florentines with a splendid sketch depicting la Madonna e Sant'Anna - The Madonna and St. Anna - (Londra, National Gallery), which the people admired with continuous visits for two days; and in this period as well he portrayed la Ginevra, Amerigo Benci's wife, and la Gioconda, Francesco del Giocondo's wife: a portrait, the latter, produced in the de' Gondi houses and for which, we know from Vasari, Leonardo wanted musicians and jokers to keep the woman constantly cheerful while he painted her portrait, to avoid the melancholic tone that at times finds its way into portraits.

At last, in 1503, Pier Soderini commissioned from Leonardo the renowned Battaglia di Anghiari - The Batttle of Anghiari - to be produced in fresco in the sala dei Cinquecento in Palazzo Vecchio: an art work that Leonardo, after having worked at the sketch in the sala del Pala in Santa Maria Novella, abandoned in June 1506.

In the same year he also left Florence, but the memory of him would have inevitably signed the course of the Florentine art in the following centuries.