Where can you see Leonardo da Vinci in Florence?

At the Uffizi Gallery: The Annunciation, The Adoration of the Magi and The Baptism of Christ. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

What is Leonardo da Vinci's most famous work in Florence?

The Annunciation, of about 1472 to 1476, at the Uffizi Gallery. The angel kneels on a lawn of flowers and the Virgin looks up from her book, in front of a garden wall and a harbour dissolving into haze. He was about twenty. The angel's wings were studied from a bird's.

When and where was Leonardo da Vinci born?

On 15 April 1452, at Anchiano, near Vinci, Italy. Leonardo da Vinci died on 2 May 1519, at Amboise, France, aged about 67.

What is Leonardo da Vinci known for?

Trained in Florence in the workshop of Verrocchio. His three paintings in the Uffizi hang in one room. Left the Adoration of the Magi unfinished when he went to Milan in 1482. Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian painter, of the High Renaissance.

Painter, 1452 to 1519

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo came to Florence as a boy and stayed until he was thirty. The three paintings in the Uffizi show him at the start: a pupil outdoing his master, then a young painter trying something nobody had tried.

Born: 1452, Anchiano, near Vinci, Italy
Died: 1519, Amboise, France
Movement: High Renaissance
In Florence: 3 works in 1 museum

Where to see Leonardo da Vinci in Florence

Each work with the museum it hangs in. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.

Uffizi Gallery3 works

The Annunciation
about 1472 to 1476
The angel kneels on a lawn of flowers and the Virgin looks up from her book, in front of a garden wall and a harbour dissolving into haze. He was about twenty. The angel's wings were studied from a bird's.
The Adoration of the Magi
1481 to 1482
A crowd pressing round the Virgin and Child, with ruins and fighting horsemen behind, left as a drawing in brown on the panel when he moved to Milan. It shows how he built a picture before colour.
The Baptism of Christ
about 1470 to 1475
By his master Verrocchio. The kneeling angel at the far left, and parts of the landscape, are by the young Leonardo. Vasari says Verrocchio never touched a brush again.

The life of Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo was born near Vinci, thirty kilometres west of Florence, in 1452, and was apprenticed in his teens to the sculptor and painter Andrea del Verrocchio. He stayed in the city until about 1482, when he left for the court of Milan.

He came back in 1500 for some years, and it was in Florence that he began the Mona Lisa and the lost Battle of Anghiari for the Palazzo Vecchio. He took the first away with him. The second he abandoned.

What to know

Trained in Florence in the workshop of Verrocchio
His three paintings in the Uffizi hang in one room
Left the Adoration of the Magi unfinished when he went to Milan in 1482

Born: 15 April 1452, Anchiano, near Vinci, Italy
Died: 2 May 1519, Amboise, France

Leonardo da Vinci: common questions

Where can you see Leonardo da Vinci in Florence?: At the Uffizi Gallery: The Annunciation, The Adoration of the Magi and The Baptism of Christ. Museums move and lend their works, so check before a special journey.
What is Leonardo da Vinci's most famous work in Florence?: The Annunciation, of about 1472 to 1476, at the Uffizi Gallery. The angel kneels on a lawn of flowers and the Virgin looks up from her book, in front of a garden wall and a harbour dissolving into haze. He was about twenty. The angel's wings were studied from a bird's.
When and where was Leonardo da Vinci born?: On 15 April 1452, at Anchiano, near Vinci, Italy. Leonardo da Vinci died on 2 May 1519, at Amboise, France, aged about 67.
What is Leonardo da Vinci known for?: Trained in Florence in the workshop of Verrocchio. His three paintings in the Uffizi hang in one room. Left the Adoration of the Magi unfinished when he went to Milan in 1482. Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian painter, of the High Renaissance.