Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda or La Joconde) is a sixteenth-century portrait painted in oil on a poplar panel in Florence, Italy by Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci during the Renaissance. The work is currently owned...
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Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List St. John the Baptist is an oil painting on walnut wood by the artist Leonardo da Vinci. Completed from 1513 to 1516, when the High Renaissance was metamorphosing into Mannerism, it is believed to be his last painting. The...
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Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List Bacchus, formerly Saint John the Baptist, in the Musée du Louvre is based on a drawing by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci but is presumed to have been executed by an unknown follower, perhaps in...
Read MoreThe Virgin and Child with St. Anne by Leonardo da Vinci
Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List The Virgin and Child with St Anne is an oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci depicting St. Anne, her daughter the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. Christ is shown grappling with a sacrificial lamb symbolising his Passion...
Read MoreMadonna of the Yarnwinder by Leonardo da Vinci
Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List The Madonna of the Yarnwinder (Madonna dei Fusi) (c. 1501) is the subject of several oil paintings after a lost original by Leonardo da Vinci. They depict the Virgin Mary with the Christ child, who looks longingly at a...
Read MoreThe Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist by Leonardo da Vinci
Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist, sometimes called The Burlington House Cartoon, is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, believed to have been executed c.1499-1500. The drawing is in charcoal and black...
Read MoreThe Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List The Last Supper is a 15th century mural painting in Milan created by Leonardo da Vinci for his patron Duke Ludovico Sforza and his duchess Beatrice d’Este. It represents the scene of The Last Supper from the final...
Read MoreLa belle ferronnière by Leonardo da Vinci
Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List La belle ferronnière is a name that has been applied to two Renaissance portrait paintings. The first (illustrated), though sometimes simply known as Portrait of an Unknown Woman, may be of Lucrezia Crivelli, a mistress...
Read MorePortrait of a Musician by Leonardo da Vinci
Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List Portrait of a Musician is an oil on wood painting attributed to Leonardo Da Vinci by some scholars. It was probably painted in 1490. The man in the painting was at one time thought to be Franchino Gaffurio, who was the...
Read MoreMadonna Litta by Leonardo da Vinci
Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List The Madonna Litta is one of the great paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. There are numerous replicas of the work by other Renaissance painters, and Leonardo’s own preliminary sketch of Madonna’s head in the...
Read MoreLady with an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci
Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List Lady with an Ermine is a painting by Leonardo da Vinci, from around 1489–1490. The subject of the portrait is identified as Cecilia Gallerani, and was probably painted at a time when she was the mistress of Lodovico...
Read MoreVirgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci
Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List The Virgin of the Rocks (sometimes the Madonna of the Rocks) is the usual title used for both of two different paintings with almost identical compositions, which are at least largely by Leonardo da Vinci. They are in the...
Read MoreAdoration of the Magi Leonardo da Vinci
Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List The Adoration of the Magi is an early painting by Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was given the commission by the Augustinian monks of San Donato a Scopeto in Florence, but departed for Milan the following year, leaving the...
Read MoreSt. Jerome in the Wilderness by Leonardo da Vinci
Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List St Jerome in the Wilderness (c. 1480) is an unfinished painting by Leonardo da Vinci, now in the Vatican Museums, Rome. The painting depicts Saint Jerome during his retreat to the Syrian desert, where he lived the life of...
Read MoreMadonna of the Carnation by Leonardo da Vinci
Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List The Madonna of the Carnation, a.k.a. Madonna with vase or Madonna with child, is an oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci created around 1478-1480 (Renaissance). It is permanently displayed at the Alte Pinakothek gallery[1] in...
Read MoreBenois Madonna by Leonardo da Vinci
Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List Madonna and Child with Flowers, otherwise known as the Benois Madonna, could be one of two Madonnas started by Leonardo da Vinci, as he remarked himself, in October 1478. The other one could be Madonna with the Carnation...
Read MoreGinevra de’ Benci by Leonardo da Vinci
Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List Ginevra de’ Benci (1457-c. 1520) was an aristocrat from 15th century Florence, admired for her intelligence by Florentine contemporaries. She is the subject of one of only about 17 existing paintings attributed to...
Read MoreAnnunciation by Leonardo da Vinci
Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List The painting “Annunciation” or “The Annunciation” by Leonardo da Vinci was painted, with Andrea del Verrocchio, circa 1472–1475. The wings were later extended by another artist. The angel holds a...
Read MoreThe Baptism of Christ
Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List The Baptism of Christ is a painting finished around 1475 by the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci and his workshop. It is housed in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence. Leonardo’s...
Read MoreLeonardo da Vinci Paintings List
Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List Fifteen works are generally attributed either in whole or in large part to him, most of them paintings on panel but including a mural, a large drawing on paper and two works in the early stages of preparation. A further...
Read MoreLeonardo da Vinci Quotes
Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. Anyone who conducts an...
Read MoreLeonardo da Vinci Death in Amboise
Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List Leonardo died on 2 May 1519 in Amboise. At this time Leonardo da Vinci was 67 year old. His state of health was not the best, because Leonardo had a paralysis on the right side of his body since 1517 and Vasari told about...
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Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List Ser Guido di Ser Michele da Vinci was the great great-grandfather of Leonardo da Vinci. He lived in Vinci and first mention of him is dated by 1339. He was a florentine notary. To take up the profession of notary was a...
Read MoreLeonardo da Vinci First Works
Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List The first known and dated work of Leonardo da Vinci is a pen-and-ink drawing of the Arnovalley. Leonardo drew it on 5. August 1473. The picture shows this drawing. It shows the ingenious mind of Leonardo, because he drew...
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Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List Leonardo started an apprenticeship in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio 1466. Verrocchio was at this time the most gifted and manifoldest artist in Florence. He was a sculptor, painter, goldsmith, bronze caster and...
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Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List Perhaps even more impressive than his artistic work are his studies in science and engineering, recorded in notebooks comprising some 13,000 pages of notes and drawings, which fuse art and science. These notes were made...
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Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List Leonardo is well known for his artistry and paintings, such as Last Supper (Ultima Cena or Cenacolo, in Milan) 1498, and the Mona Lisa (also known as La Gioconda, now at the Louvre in Paris), 1503-1506. Though there is...
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Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List From around 1482 to 1499 Ludovico Sforza, Duke of Milan , employed Leonardo and permitted him to operate his own workshop complete with apprentices. It was here that seventy tons of bronze that had been set aside for...
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Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List Leonardo da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an Italian Renaissance architect, musician, anatomist, inventor, engineer, sculptor, geometer, and painter. He has been described as the archetype of the...
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Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List Anchiano (Italy) It was the period of the renaissance when Leonardo da Vinci was born on 15. April 1452. Leonardo was born probably in this farmhouse in Anchiano, which is 3 km away from Vinci. The family of Leonardo lived...
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Home Page | Birth Place | Professional Life | Personal Life | Science Life | Art Style | Apprenticeship | First Works | Family Tree | Death in Amboise | Quotes | Paintings List “Leonardo da Vinci was like a man who awoke too early in the darkness, while the others were all still asleep” ~ Sigmund Freud Leonardo da Vinci was a brilliant man who has influenced our world in ways that...
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