LEONARDO da Vinci Funf studies of grotesque faces Painting ID:: 38522 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-355642.jpg
Funf studies of grotesque faces mk137
ca. 1494 feathers and ink 26x20.6cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle.
LEONARDO da Vinci Rule fur the proportion of the human figure Painting ID:: 38524 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-748959.jpg
Rule fur the proportion of the human figure mk137
after Vitruv 1490 feathers and ink, 34.4x24.5cm Galleria Dell'
Accademia, Venice
LEONARDO da Vinci Muscle structure of the thigh Painting ID:: 38525 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-984929.jpg
Muscle structure of the thigh mk137
Feather and ink black chalk 28.6x20.7cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
LEONARDO da Vinci Muscles and bone of leg and Hufte Painting ID:: 38526 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-798362.jpg
Muscles and bone of leg and Hufte mk137
vergleichends study to the skeleton of the person and the horse ca.1506-1508 feather and ink with Rotel before red
background 28.5x20.5cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
LEONARDO da Vinci Interior view of the Schadels Painting ID:: 38527 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-977447.jpg
Interior view of the Schadels mk137
1489 feathers and ink 19x13.3cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
LEONARDO da Vinci Anatomy of the Schadels Painting ID:: 38528 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-634897.jpg
Anatomy of the Schadels mk137
1489 feathers and ink 19x13.3cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle.
LEONARDO da Vinci Waiter flat anatomy of the shoulder Painting ID:: 38529 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-844955.jpg
Waiter flat anatomy of the shoulder mk137
ca.1510-1511 feather and ink with India ink uber wood cabbage cement floor
28.9x19.8cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
LEONARDO da Vinci The muscles of arm, shoulder and neck Painting ID:: 38530 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-553976.jpg
The muscles of arm, shoulder and neck mk137
after 1510 feathers and ink with India ink 28.5x19.5cm Royal Library,
Windsor Castle
LEONARDO da Vinci Study of the proportion of the head Painting ID:: 38531 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-647694.jpg
Study of the proportion of the head mk137
ca. 1490 feathers and brown India ink, Royal Library, Windsor Castle
LEONARDO da Vinci Anatomical study of the brain and the scalp Painting ID:: 38532 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-569964.jpg
Anatomical study of the brain and the scalp mk137
ca.1490-1493 feather and brown India ink and Rotel 20.3x15.2cm
Royal Library, Windsor Castle
LEONARDO da Vinci The muscles of Thorax and shoulders in a lebnden person Painting ID:: 38533 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-789962.jpg
The muscles of Thorax and shoulders in a lebnden person mk137
1510 feathers and brown ink and black chalk with India
ink 29.8x19.8cm Royal Collection, Windsor Castle
LEONARDO da Vinci Anatomical drawing of the stomach and the intestine Painting ID:: 38534 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-698837.jpg
Anatomical drawing of the stomach and the intestine mk137
ca. 1506 feathers and brown India ink, traces of black
chalk 19.2x13.8cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
LEONARDO da Vinci Gekrose of the intestine and its Gefabsystems Painting ID:: 38535 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-265488.jpg
Gekrose of the intestine and its Gefabsystems mk137
ca.1506 feather and India ink traces of black chalk 19.3x14.3cm
Royal Library, Windsor Castle
LEONARDO da Vinci The organs of the woman Painting ID:: 38536 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-497789.jpg
The organs of the woman mk137
ca. 1509 feathers and ink uber charcoal and traces of Rotel with dark brown India ink
46.7x33.2cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle.
LEONARDO da Vinci You branching of the Blutgefabe, anatomical figure with heart kidneys and Blutgefaben Painting ID:: 38537 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-983888.jpg
You branching of the Blutgefabe, anatomical figure with heart kidneys and Blutgefaben mk137
ca. 1490 feathers and
brown India ink uber of black chalk 28x20cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
LEONARDO da Vinci Anatomical studies of the basin of the Steibeins and the lower Gliedmaben of a woman and study of the rotation of the arms Painting ID:: 38538 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-276259.jpg
Anatomical studies of the basin of the Steibeins and the lower Gliedmaben of a woman and study of the rotation of the arms mk137
ca.1509-1510 feather and brown India ink and black
chalk 28.6x19.3cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
LEONARDO da Vinci The embryo in the Uterus Painting ID:: 38539 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-953584.jpg
The embryo in the Uterus mk137
ca.1510-1512 feather and ink with India ink uber Rotel 30x21.5cm Royal Library,
Windsor Castle
LEONARDO da Vinci The Fotus in the Uterus Painting ID:: 38540 new12/LEONARDO da Vinci-536936.jpg
The Fotus in the Uterus mk137
ca.1511-1513 feather and ink 30.5x22cm Royal Library, Windsor Castle
LEONARDO da Vinci Madonna with a Flower Painting ID:: 40970 new16/LEONARDO da Vinci-572259.jpg
Madonna with a Flower mk159
Oil on cnvas
Transferred from panel
49.5x31.5cm
LEONARDO da Vinci Madonna and Child Painting ID:: 40971 new16/LEONARDO da Vinci-825592.jpg
Madonna and Child mk159
c.1490-91
Tempera on canvas
transferred from panel
42x33cm
LEONARDO da Vinci The Anunciacion Painting ID:: 41945 new16/LEONARDO da Vinci-952634.jpg
The Anunciacion mk166
c. 1470
I wave and tempera on board of wood 98x217cm
LEONARDO da Vinci The Virgin and the Nino with Holy Ana Painting ID:: 41957 new16/LEONARDO da Vinci-844365.jpg
The Virgin and the Nino with Holy Ana mk166
Between 1508 and 1510
Painting on wood 168x130cm
LEONARDO da Vinci The Virgin of the rocks Painting ID:: 41959 new16/LEONARDO da Vinci-666754.jpg
The Virgin of the rocks mk166
1483
I Wave on cloth
199x12cm
Museum of the Louvre, Paris
LEONARDO da Vinci The last dinner Painting ID:: 42648 new16/LEONARDO da Vinci-748322.jpg
The last dinner MK169
ca.1495-98 Mural 460x856cm
LEONARDO da Vinci Maria with Child and St. Anna Painting ID:: 42649 new16/LEONARDO da Vinci-468533.jpg
Maria with Child and St. Anna MK169
1508-10 Panel 168x130cm Louvre, Paris
LEONARDO da Vinci Mona Lisa Painting ID:: 42650 new16/LEONARDO da Vinci-292229.jpg
Mona Lisa MK169
1503-06 Panel 76.8x53.3cm Louvre, Paris
LEONARDO da Vinci Madonna with the Yarnwinder Painting ID:: 44460 new16/LEONARDO da Vinci-665386.jpg
Madonna with the Yarnwinder c. 1501
Oil on panel,
48,3 x 36,9 cm
LEONARDO da Vinci Mona Lisa Painting ID:: 44881 new16/LEONARDO da Vinci-665942.jpg
Mona Lisa mk176
c.1503-05
Oil on wood
30x21
LEONARDO da Vinci Drawing of an Infant Painting ID:: 44882 new16/LEONARDO da Vinci-348326.jpg
Drawing of an Infant mk176
c.1510-12
Accademia
venice
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.