Late Middle Ages · Europe · Culture

1480

Leonardo Offers Sforza His Services

1480

Leonardo wrote a famous letter to Ludovico Sforza, duke of Milan, listing his skills: designer of bridges, siege engines, armored wagons, mortars, catapults. Only at the end did he mention that he could also paint. He was hired. Milan acquired a military engineer who moonlighted as the age's supreme artist.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: 1479: Peace of Constantinople
After: 1481: Tomas de Torquemada Appointed Grand Inquisitor

Before and after in Culture

Before: 1478: Botticelli Paints Birth of Venus
After: 1482: Leonardo Arrives in Milan

Era

Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.