Leonardo Da Vinci Bacchus (mk05) Painting ID:: 20096 new5/Leonardo Da Vinci-645392.jpg
Bacchus (mk05) Canvas,69 1/2 x 45 1/2''(177 x 115 cm).Collection of Louis
Leonardo Da Vinci Portrait of Mona Lisa,La Gioconda (mk05) Painting ID:: 20958 new6/Leonardo Da Vinci-537552.jpg
Portrait of Mona Lisa,La Gioconda (mk05) 1503-1506
Wood 30 1/4 x 21''(77 x 53 cm)The subject is thought to be the wife of a Florentine,Francesco del Giocondo Cut at the sides,losing pillars framing a window,which are now barely visible.Entered the Louvre about 1519 INV 779 (MN)
Leonardo Da Vinci Portrait of a Lady at the Court of Milan (san05) Painting ID:: 20962 new6/Leonardo Da Vinci-649753.jpg
Portrait of a Lady at the Court of Milan (san05) Wood 25 x 17 1/2''(63 x 45 cm)Collection of Louis XIV INV 778 (MN)
Leonardo Da Vinci Virgin of the Rocks (mk10) Painting ID:: 21762 new6/Leonardo Da Vinci-699574.jpg
Virgin of the Rocks (mk10) Oil on canvas,
199 x 122 cm
Paris,Musee du Louvre
Leonardo Da Vinci Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist Painting ID:: 33454 new9/Leonardo Da Vinci-894945.jpg
Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist mk86
c.1495
Charcoal,heightened with white
on cardboard
144.5x104cm
London,National Gallery
Leonardo Da Vinci Last Supper Painting ID:: 33467 new9/Leonardo Da Vinci-268266.jpg
Last Supper mk86
1495-1498
Oil tempera on plaster
460x880cm
Milan,Santa Maria delle Grazie,
Refectory
Leonardo Da Vinci Adoration of the Magi Painting ID:: 33468 new9/Leonardo Da Vinci-482836.jpg
Adoration of the Magi mk86
c.1481
Oil and bistre on wood
240x246cm
Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi.
Leonardo Da Vinci The Annunciation Painting ID:: 40234 new12/Leonardo Da Vinci-467322.jpg
The Annunciation mk156
c.1472
Oil and tempera on panel
98x217cm
Leonardo Da Vinci Madonna with a Flower Painting ID:: 40239 new12/Leonardo Da Vinci-724534.jpg
Madonna with a Flower mk156
1478
Oil on canvas
49.5x33cm
Leonardo Da Vinci The Last Supper Painting ID:: 40265 new12/Leonardo Da Vinci-952694.jpg
The Last Supper mk156
1495-1498
Oil and tempera on stone
460x880cm
Leonardo Da Vinci Lady with Emine Painting ID:: 40272 new12/Leonardo Da Vinci-665286.jpg
Lady with Emine mk156
1483-1490
Oil on panel
54x39cm
Leonardo Da Vinci The Virgin of the Rocks Painting ID:: 40277 new12/Leonardo Da Vinci-725723.jpg
The Virgin of the Rocks mk156
1483-86
Oil on panel
199x122cm
Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa Painting ID:: 40280 new12/Leonardo Da Vinci-849733.jpg
Mona Lisa mk156
c.1503-1506
Oil on poplar panel
77x53cm
Leonardo Da Vinci The Virgin of the Rocks Painting ID:: 42972 new16/Leonardo Da Vinci-752762.jpg
The Virgin of the Rocks mk170
Cira 1508
Oil on wood
189.5x
Leonardo Da Vinci Flower Studies Painting ID:: 44880 new16/Leonardo Da Vinci-944854.jpg
Flower Studies mk176
c.1505-08
Leonardo Da Vinci The Battle of Anghiari Painting ID:: 44883 new16/Leonardo Da Vinci-438967.jpg
The Battle of Anghiari mk176
1503-06
Oil on plaster
Leonardo Da Vinci Virgin of the Rocks Painting ID:: 44891 new16/Leonardo Da Vinci-898267.jpg
Virgin of the Rocks mk176
c.1485
Oil on wood
190.5x109.5
Leonardo Da Vinci Pod of cherry and forest strawberry Painting ID:: 45583 new17/Leonardo Da Vinci-768679.jpg
Pod of cherry and forest strawberry mk186
1487-89 Paris institute de France
Leonardo Da Vinci Regisol Painting ID:: 45845 new17/Leonardo Da Vinci-649295.jpg
Regisol mk178
1490
pen-and-ink drawings 2.9x3.6cm
Leonardo Da Vinci Horses with horsemen Painting ID:: 45892 new17/Leonardo Da Vinci-986296.jpg
Horses with horsemen mk178
after 1481 Metallstifizeichnung, with feather and brown India ink reinforced on Prapariertem paper
14.3x12.8cm
Leonardo Da Vinci Madonna of the Rocks Painting ID:: 48636 new18/Leonardo Da Vinci-274362.jpg
Madonna of the Rocks mk191
about 1508
oil on board
189.5x120cm
Leonardo Da Vinci Detail of Madonna of the Rocks Painting ID:: 48637 new18/Leonardo Da Vinci-328567.jpg
Detail of Madonna of the Rocks mk191
Oil on board
Leonardo Da Vinci Detail of Madonna of the Rocks Painting ID:: 48638 new18/Leonardo Da Vinci-965298.jpg
Detail of Madonna of the Rocks mk191
Flowers oil on the board
Leonardo Da Vinci Detail of Madonna of the Rocks Painting ID:: 48639 new18/Leonardo Da Vinci-534822.jpg
Detail of Madonna of the Rocks mk191
Oil on board
Leonardo Da Vinci Cartoon Painting ID:: 50879 new18/Leonardo Da Vinci-856888.jpg
Cartoon mk216
Drew this cartoon,a full-scale composition of the Virgin and Child with St Anne and the Infant St John the Baptist.
Leonardo Da Vinci The Annunciation Painting ID:: 51691 new19/Leonardo Da Vinci-857429.jpg
The Annunciation nn09
c.1472-75
Oil on wood
98x217cm
Leonardo Da Vinci Madonna and Child with a Pomegranate Painting ID:: 52320 new19/Leonardo Da Vinci-734882.jpg
Madonna and Child with a Pomegranate 1472-76 Oil on panel, 15,7 x 12,8 cm
Leonardo Da Vinci Study for the Trivulzio Equestrian Monument Painting ID:: 52322 new19/Leonardo Da Vinci-432526.jpg
Study for the Trivulzio Equestrian Monument 1508-10 Pen and ink on paper, 280 x 198 mm
Leonardo Da Vinci Reverse side of the portrait of Ginevra de' Benci Painting ID:: 52323 new19/Leonardo Da Vinci-827938.jpg
Reverse side of the portrait of Ginevra de' Benci 1474-46 Oil on wood, 38,8 x 36,7 cm
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.