LEONARDO da Vinci Virgin of the Rocks Painting ID:: 33469 new9/LEONARDO da Vinci-659676.jpg
Virgin of the Rocks mk86
c.1483
Oil on wood
Transferred to canvas
199x122cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
LEONARDO da Vinci The Virgin and St Anne Painting ID:: 33471 new9/LEONARDO da Vinci-386249.jpg
The Virgin and St Anne mk86
c.1508
Oil on wood
168x130cm
Paris,Musee National du Louvre
LEONARDO da Vinci The Last Supper Painting ID:: 34472 new10/REMBRANDT Harmenszoon van Rijn-525778.jpg
The Last Supper mk93
1495-98
Fresco,Approx
29x15ft
Santa Maria delle Grazie
Milan
LEONARDO da Vinci Power and ortraits Painting ID:: 34678 new10/LEONARDO da Vinci-742849.jpg
Power and ortraits mk94
LEONARDO da Vinci The Annunciation Painting ID:: 34679 new10/LEONARDO da Vinci-773865.jpg
The Annunciation mk96
104x217cm
LEONARDO da Vinci Self Portrait Painting ID:: 38428 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-222299.jpg
Self Portrait mk137
ca.1512
Rotel on paper 33.3x21.3cm Biblioteca real, Turin
LEONARDO da Vinci The madonna with the Children Painting ID:: 38429 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-692785.jpg
The madonna with the Children mk137
1475-1478 oil on linen of wood ubertragen 49.5x33cm Eremitage, St Peter castle
LEONARDO da Vinci Leonardo there Vinci and Andrea del Verrocchio, madonna with the child and angels Painting ID:: 38432 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-455832.jpg
Leonardo there Vinci and Andrea del Verrocchio, madonna with the child and angels mk137
ca. 1470 Tempera on wood
chalkboard 96.5x70.5cm The nationally Gallery London
LEONARDO da Vinci Jacopo Bellini Painting ID:: 38433 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-955825.jpg
Jacopo Bellini mk137
that of Leonello d' Este madonna of the humility admired ca. 1440 oils on wood chalkboard
60x40cm muse you Louvre, Paris
LEONARDO da Vinci Madonna with the carnation Painting ID:: 38434 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-647477.jpg
Madonna with the carnation mk137
ca. 1470 oils Pinakothek Munchen old on wood chalkboard 62x47.5cm
LEONARDO da Vinci The Verkundigung Painting ID:: 38439 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-963763.jpg
The Verkundigung mk137
1472-1475 oils on wood chalkboard 98x217cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
LEONARDO da Vinci Profile of an old man Painting ID:: 38446 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-398969.jpg
Profile of an old man mk137
ca.1485-1490 feather and ink 7.8x5.6cm Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
LEONARDO da Vinci Profile of an old man Painting ID:: 38447 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-782363.jpg
Profile of an old man mk137
ca. 1480 feathers and ink 7.2x5.5cm Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
LEONARDO da Vinci Study of an old man Painting ID:: 38448 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-778824.jpg
Study of an old man mk137
ca. 1505 Rotel 9.4x6cm muses you Louvre, Paris
LEONARDO da Vinci Buste one frontal to seeing man and head of a Lowen Painting ID:: 38449 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-882834.jpg
Buste one frontal to seeing man and head of a Lowen mk137
ca.1505-1510 Rotel and Weibhohungen on paper 18.3x13.6cm
Royal Library, Windsor Castle.
LEONARDO da Vinci Aurelio Luini attributed, profile of an old man Painting ID:: 38450 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-934952.jpg
Aurelio Luini attributed, profile of an old man mk137
16.Jahrhundert. Feather metal stiff and ink 13x10.2cm
Biblioteca real, Turin
LEONARDO da Vinci Master of the Pala Sforzesca, profile of an old man Painting ID:: 38451 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-688539.jpg
Master of the Pala Sforzesca, profile of an old man mk137
ca. 1495 silver stiff on paper 15x11.5cm Galleria degli
Uffizi, Florence
LEONARDO da Vinci Profile of an old man Painting ID:: 38453 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-426987.jpg
Profile of an old man mk137
ca.1510 black chalk and Rotel 22.2x16cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
LEONARDO da Vinci Profile one with book leaves gekroten of old man Painting ID:: 38454 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-373377.jpg
Profile one with book leaves gekroten of old man mk137
ca.1506-1508 feather and ink, Rotel on paper 16.8x12.5cm
Biblioteca real, Turin
LEONARDO da Vinci Study fur the adoration of the Konige Painting ID:: 38456 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-684575.jpg
Study fur the adoration of the Konige mk137
ca. 1480 feathers and ink 27.5x18cm Wallraf-Richartz museum, Koln
LEONARDO da Vinci Six studies fur naked or clothed men Painting ID:: 38457 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-767485.jpg
Six studies fur naked or clothed men mk137
ca. 1480 feathers and ink 27.7x21cm muse you Louvre, Paris
LEONARDO da Vinci Studies fur the adoration of the Konige Painting ID:: 38458 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-895929.jpg
Studies fur the adoration of the Konige mk137
ca. 1481 feathers and ink uber metal pencil uf paper 21.3x15.2cm
Bonnat museum, Bayonne
LEONARDO da Vinci Studies fur the adoration of the Konige Painting ID:: 38459 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-728832.jpg
Studies fur the adoration of the Konige mk137
ca. 1480 feathers and ink 16.6x26.5cm The British museum London
LEONARDO da Vinci The adoration of the Konige Painting ID:: 38460 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-443944.jpg
The adoration of the Konige mk137
1481-1482 yellow Ocker and brown ink on wood chalkboard 246x243cm Galleria degli
Uffizi, Florence
LEONARDO da Vinci Holy Hieronymus Painting ID:: 38464 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-372588.jpg
Holy Hieronymus mk137
1482 Tempera and oil on wood chalkboard 103x75cm Pinacoteca Vaticana, Rome
LEONARDO da Vinci Landscape in the Arnotal Painting ID:: 38465 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-229359.jpg
Landscape in the Arnotal mk137
1473 feathers and ink 19x28.5cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
LEONARDO da Vinci Plan fur a canal to the evasion of the Arno Painting ID:: 38466 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-592385.jpg
Plan fur a canal to the evasion of the Arno mk137
1503-1504 feather and ink Uber of black chalk 33.5x48.2cm Royal
Library, Windsor Castle.
LEONARDO da Vinci A rock gorge Painting ID:: 38467 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-354338.jpg
A rock gorge mk137
ca. 1494 feathers and ink on paper 22x15.8cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle.
LEONARDO da Vinci Portrat of Isabella d-Este Painting ID:: 38468 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-833432.jpg
Portrat of Isabella d-Este mk137
1500 black chalk with traces of Rotel in the hair and in the skin and Hohungen in bubble yellow in the dress
61x46cm muse you Louvre, Paris
Italian High Renaissance Painter and Inventor, 1452-1519
Italian High Renaissance Painter and Inventor, 1452-1519 Florentine Renaissance man, genius, artist in all media, architect, military engineer. Possibly the most brilliantly creative man in European history, he advertised himself, first of all, as a military engineer. In a famous letter dated about 1481 to Ludovico Sforza, of which a copy survives in the Codice Atlantico in Milan, Leonardo asks for employment in that capacity. He had plans for bridges, very light and strong, and plans for destroying those of the enemy. He knew how to cut off water to besieged fortifications, and how to construct bridges, mantlets, scaling ladders, and other instruments. He designed cannon, very convenient and easy of transport, designed to fire small stones, almost in the manner of hail??grape- or case-shot (see ammunition, artillery). He offered cannon of very beautiful and useful shapes, quite different from those in common use and, where it is not possible to employ cannon ?? catapults, mangonels and trabocchi and other engines of wonderful efficacy not in general use. And he said he made armoured cars, safe and unassailable, which will enter the serried ranks of the enemy with their artillery ?? and behind them the infantry will be able to follow quite unharmed, and without any opposition. He also offered to design ships which can resist the fire of all the heaviest cannon, and powder and smoke. The large number of surviving drawings and notes on military art show that Leonardo claims were not without foundation, although most date from after the Sforza letter. Most of the drawings, including giant crossbows (see bows), appear to be improvements on existing machines rather than new inventions. One exception is the drawing of a tank dating from 1485-8 now in the British Museum??a flattened cone, propelled from inside by crankshafts, firing guns. Another design in the British Museum, for a machine with scythes revolving in the horizontal plane, dismembering bodies as it goes, is gruesomely fanciful. Most of the other drawings are in the Codice Atlantico in Milan but some are in the Royal Libraries at Windsor and Turin, in Venice, or the Louvre and the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Two ingenious machines for continuously firing arrows, machine-gun style, powered by a treadmill are shown in the Codice Atlantico. A number of other sketches of bridges, water pumps, and canals could be for military or civil purposes: dual use technology. Leonardo lived at a time when the first artillery fortifications were appearing and the Codice Atlantico contains sketches of ingenious fortifications combining bastions, round towers, and truncated cones. Models constructed from the drawings and photographed in Calvi works reveal forts which would have looked strikingly modern in the 19th century, and might even feature in science fiction films today. On 18 August 1502 Cesare Borgia appointed Leonardo as his Military Engineer General, although no known building by Leonardo exists. Leonardo was also fascinated by flight. Thirteen pages with drawings for man-powered aeroplanes survive and there is one design for a helicoidal helicopter. Leonardo later realized the inadequacy of the power a man could generate and turned his attention to aerofoils. Had his enormous abilities been concentrated on one thing, he might have invented the modern glider.