A display apparatus, includes: a plurality of pixel circuits disposed in rows and columns and each including a driving transistor configured to produce driving current, an electro-optical element connected to an output terminal of the driving transistor, a storage capacitor configured to store information corresponding to a signal amplitude of an image signal, and a first sampling transistor and asecond sampling transistor connected in cascade connection for writing the information corresponding to the signal amplitude into the storage capacitor; a vertical scanning section configured to produce a vertical scanning pulse for vertically scanning the pixel circuits; a plurality of vertical scanning lines connected to the vertical scanning section; a horizontal scanning section configured tosupply the image signal to the pixel circuits in synchronism with the vertical scanning by the vertical scanning section; and a plurality of horizontal scanning lines connected to the horizontal scanning section.