LEONARDO da Vinci The Last Supper Painting ID:: 62018 new21/LEONARDO da Vinci-439384.jpg
The Last Supper mk276 1495 mural years 460 x 880cm
LEONARDO da Vinci Head of a girl Painting ID:: 63027 new21/LEONARDO da Vinci-963342.jpg
Head of a girl 1483 Silverpoint and white highlights on prepared paper, 181 x 159 mm Biblioteca Reale, Turin The eminent art expert Bernhard Berenson called this sheet "the most beautiful drawing in the world." It is thought to be a study for the angel in the Virgin of the Rocks in the Musee du Louvre, Paris. Artist: LEONARDO da Vinci Painting Title: Head of a girl , 1451-1500 Painting Style: Italian , graphics Type: study
LEONARDO da Vinci Hl. Anna, Maria, Christuskind mit Lamm Painting ID:: 70873 new23/LEONARDO da Vinci-884393.jpg
Hl. Anna, Maria, Christuskind mit Lamm 1510(1510)
Oil on panel
168 x 112 cm (66.14 x 44.09 in)
LEONARDO da Vinci The Virgin and Child with St Anne Painting ID:: 83590 new24/LEONARDO da Vinci-883653.jpg
The Virgin and Child with St Anne Date ca. 1510(1510)
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions Height: 168 cm (66.1 in). Width: 130 cm (51.2 in).
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LEONARDO da Vinci Madonna with the Yarnwinder Painting ID:: 83810 new24/LEONARDO da Vinci-766675.jpg
Madonna with the Yarnwinder Date after 1510(1510)
Medium Oil on panel,
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LEONARDO da Vinci The Virgin and Child with St Anne Painting ID:: 84105 new24/LEONARDO da Vinci-789377.jpg
The Virgin and Child with St Anne Date ca. 1510(1510)
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions Width: 40 cm (15.7 in). (of detail)
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LEONARDO da Vinci The Annunciation Painting ID:: 84587 new25/LEONARDO da Vinci-865876.jpg
The Annunciation Date between 1472(1472) and 1475(1475)
Medium Oil and tempera on wood
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LEONARDO da Vinci The Annunciation Painting ID:: 84588 new25/LEONARDO da Vinci-767655.jpg
The Annunciation Date between 1472(1472) and 1475(1475)
Medium Oil and tempera on wood
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LEONARDO da Vinci The Annunciation Painting ID:: 84589 new25/LEONARDO da Vinci-653474.jpg
The Annunciation Date between 1472(1472) and 1475(1475)
Medium Oil and tempera on wood
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LEONARDO da Vinci The Annunciation Painting ID:: 84591 new25/LEONARDO da Vinci-753958.jpg
The Annunciation Date between 1472(1472) and 1475(1475)
Medium Oil and tempera on wood
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LEONARDO da Vinci Portrait of Ginevra de Benci Painting ID:: 84716 new25/LEONARDO da Vinci-433636.jpg
Portrait of Ginevra de Benci Date between 1474(1474) and 1478(1478)
Medium Oil on wood
Dimensions Height: 38.8 cm (15.3 in). Width: 36.7 cm (14.4 in).
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LEONARDO da Vinci Benois Madonna Painting ID:: 86832 new25/LEONARDO da Vinci-999859.jpg
Benois Madonna ca. 1478(1478)
Medium English: oil on canvas (originally panel)
Dimensions 49.5 x 31.8 cm (19.5 x 12.5 in)
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LEONARDO da Vinci Madonna with the Yarnwinder Painting ID:: 87709 new25/LEONARDO da Vinci-849884.jpg
Madonna with the Yarnwinder 1510(1510)
Medium Oil on panel, transferred to canvas
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LEONARDO da Vinci The Annunciation Painting ID:: 88650 new25/LEONARDO da Vinci-653358.jpg
The Annunciation between 1472(1472) and 1475(1475)
Medium Oil and tempera on wood
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LEONARDO da Vinci The Annunciation Painting ID:: 88651 new25/LEONARDO da Vinci-548684.jpg
The Annunciation between 1472(1472) and 1475(1475)
Medium Oil and tempera on wood
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LEONARDO da Vinci The Annunciation Painting ID:: 88652 new25/LEONARDO da Vinci-648773.jpg
The Annunciation between 1472(1472) and 1475(1475)
Medium Oil and tempera on wood
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LEONARDO da Vinci The Annunciation Painting ID:: 88654 new25/LEONARDO da Vinci-969555.jpg
The Annunciation between 1472(1472) and 1475(1475)
Medium Oil and tempera on wood
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LEONARDO da Vinci Madonna with the Yarnwinder Painting ID:: 89385 new25/LEONARDO da Vinci-464667.jpg
Madonna with the Yarnwinder 1510(1510)
Medium Oil on panel, transferred to canvas
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LEONARDO da Vinci Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani Painting ID:: 91243 new25/LEONARDO da Vinci-849874.jpg
Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani between 1483(1483) and 1490(1490)
Medium oil on panel
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LEONARDO da Vinci Reverse side of the portrait of Ginevra de' Benci Painting ID:: 91515 new25/LEONARDO da Vinci-753355.jpg
Reverse side of the portrait of Ginevra de' Benci between 1474(1474) and 1478(1478)
Medium oil on panel
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LEONARDO da Vinci Leda Painting ID:: 92178 new25/LEONARDO da Vinci-568797.jpg
Leda Oil on panel, 130 x 77,5 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence
Date between 1508(1508) and 1515
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LEONARDO da Vinci Adoration of the Magi Painting ID:: 94658 new26/LEONARDO da Vinci-555686.jpg
Adoration of the Magi 1481
Type oil on wood
Dimensions 246 cm x 243 cm (97 in x 96 in)
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LEONARDO da Vinci Madonna of the Yarnwinder Painting ID:: 94672 new26/LEONARDO da Vinci-876436.jpg
Madonna of the Yarnwinder c. 1499 onwards
Type Oil on walnut
Dimensions 48.3 cm x 36.9 cm (19.0 in x 14.5 in)
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LEONARDO da Vinci St John in the Wilderness Painting ID:: 98120 new26/LEONARDO da Vinci-595938.jpg
St John in the Wilderness between 1510(1510) and 1515(1515)
Medium oil on panel, transferred to canvas
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LEONARDO da Vinci Leda Painting ID:: 98293 new26/LEONARDO da Vinci-973336.jpg
Leda Leda
Date circa 1530(1530)
Medium oil on panel
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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.