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Leonardo da Vici was born on 15 April 1452 in the town of Vinci, the illegitimate son of the notary Ser Piero da Vinci and a peasant woman called Caterina. His childhood spent in the Tuscan countryside inspired in him a life-long passion for the observation and depiction of nature.
When he was seventeen, he moved to Florence, where his talent for drawing impressed the great master Verrocchio who took him on as a pupil.
Leonardo da Vinci worked for such powerful patrons as Ludovico da Sforza, Duke of Milan; Cesare Borgia; Cardinal Giuliano de Medici, brother of Leon X; and for the French king Francois I at Amboise, where he died in 1519.
It has become fashionable to speak of 'Leonardo the artist' and 'Leonardo the scientist' as if he had been some schizophrenic genius torn between two disparate pursuits and therefore rarely, if ever, able to accomplish anything in either. But Leonardo's own contemporaries, though impatient of his volatility, master himself such a dichotomy would have been incomprehensible. To say that as 'a man of the Renaissance' he believed that a painter needed the aid of anatomy, perspective, optics and so forth is not a proper answer. In fact, these alleged 'scientific' studies of Renaissance artists were a fashion confined to a small circle. In any case, Michelangelo and Raphael to name only two outstanding examples - did not share these interests but were great artists nonetheless. Leonardo's inquiries were rooted in his personality, not in some tendency of the age, and many of his notes and drawings having nothing to do with the tasks awaiting painters of his time. They are not a vast store from which to draw raw materials for his art, nor was his art simply a finely distilled compound of observations and imagination.
In fact, many of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings are different from those of his contemporaries and those by artists from any other period. Of course, there are among them rapid sketches from life, portraits, quick notes for compositions, elaborate cartoons, drapery studies, designs for machines, buildings, drawings of plants and animals, anatomical and proportion studies. But it is their nature which is so often peculiar. The plans of buildings grow before our eyes like the cells of some organism, plants appear on the same sheet both in bud and in flower, trees are drawn schematically to demonstrate the principle of growth, there is a drawing of the peaceful Arno valley, and there are the cataclysmic visions of utter physical destruction of the world. The grotesque heads - to call them caricatures is a misnomer - are combinations and variations of human forms creating a morphological sequence of types. The anatomical drawings demonstrate not only the position of muscles and tendons or the bone structure, they also show the embryo in its mother's womb and a bare skull, - the beginning and end of life. All these drawings are concerned not just with the collection of visual data useful to the painter but with the processes of life, with growth and decay, whether in plants, beast, man, or the world at large. The same is true of Leonardo's designs for his various mechanical contrivances which are so often engines of construction or destruction.
Leonardo da Vinci's notes should be considered in the same context. It is perhaps a pity that we have got used to thinking of them as if they had been written in preparation for some comprehensive treatise on painting. But it should be remembered that the huge manuscript known as Trattato della Pittura is not a autograph. It was compiled in the sixteenth century, probably by Francesco Melzi, from no less then eighteen of the original notebooks. The result certainly is a labor of love, but nevertheless this gathering divided into eight chapters is too rigid, too much like a textbook to reveal Leonardo da Vinci's truly dynamic nature. Maybe the compiler himself felt doubts about the scope of such a treatise, for there are empty leaves at the end of each chapter, surely for the later addition of relevant materials. Furthermore the chapters on elementary anatomy, proportion, on light and shade deal with topics every painter must know, but a whole section on clouds introduces a subject certainly dear to Leonardo da Vinci, while hardly relevant to the practice of art in the sixteenth century. All this is not surprising, since among Leonardo's many schemes for research no complete program for a treatise on painting has been found. While it is of course true that Leonardo made copious notes about many aspects of painting - both technical and theoretical - even their scope goes far beyond a handbook for students or artists.
Leonardo da Vinci repeatedly expressed his scorn for those who relied on book learning and the authority of older writers. By contrast he claims that his work is the result of 'simple and plain experience which is the true mistress'. With a characteristic mixture of pride and contempt he bursts out:”Though I have no power to quote form authors as they have, I shall rely on a far bigger and more worthy thing: on experience, the instructress of their masters. They strut about puffed up and pompous, decked out and adorned not with their own labors, but by those of others, and they will not even allow me my own. And if they despise me who am an inventor, how much more should they be blamed who are not inventors but trumpeters and reciters of the works of others”
The most interesting claim in this passage is Leonardo's assertion that he is an inventor, clearly meaning not so much the man who devises some new gadget but a discoverer in a far more general sense. His concept of the painter and his task must have been on of these 'discoveries'.
Through his notes and drawings Leonardo da Vinci has left us an uneasy heritage. The same is true of his few paintings. Theory springs from the brain, but practice depends on the hands, and that is why Leonardo da Vinci who was most learned was never satisfied with what he did, achieved perfection with only a few works and often said that the reason was that his hand could not follow his intellect. Only twenty of Leonardo's paintings have survived but they include some of the enduring masterpieces of Western Art: The Annunciation, The Adoration of the Magi, The Virgin of the Rocks, The Mona Lisa, of course, and his fresco of The Last Supper. All his life he observed and recorded through word and picture natural phenomena and mechanical contrivances of every kind. Often enough they seem remote from any conceivable artistic task. Yet in the end his mind seems always to return to an apparently simple yet obsessive question: what is painting? He had straightforward and technical definitions:
"Painting is a composition of light and shade, combined with all the various kinds of simple and compound colors”
But when considering the role of the painter in a less technical sense he had a definition making him an 'inventor' of a rather special kind:
"The painter is lord of all types of people and of all things. If he wishes to see beauties that charm him it lies in his power to create them, and if he wishes to see monstrosities that are frightful, buffoonish or ridiculous, or pitiable he can be lord and god thereof... If he wants valleys, if he wants from high mountain tops to unfold a great plain extending down to the sea's horizon, he is lord to do so... In fact whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hand.”
Knowledge of nature and its processes clearly meant power to Leonardo, that is the artist's power to create with pen and brush a second nature. He was not a scientist, in spite of his far flung research, for he never wanted to know for the sake of knowledge. Nor was he an artist in the modern sense since he was not interested in art for art's sake. When he wrote:'... the painter is lord of all types of people and of all things', he spoke of those powers which as an artist he claimed for himself. and yet he never finished his investigations and rarely his paintings for in the end he must have shrunk from the very power which his creations might give him. The most revealing of his notes reads:
"One should not desire the impossible.”
Today Leonardo da Vici is seen as one of the most famous figures in the history of art; no painting in the world has been reproduced as often as the Mona Lisa, on other attracts so many visitors, or has been "borrowed" by so many other artist. (Marcel Duchamp gave the Mona Lisa a mustache, Fernand Leger linked her to a bunch of keys, Kazimir Malevich included her in a collage, and Andy Warhol printed the image thirty times over by silk screen). Yet Leonardo is among the least well represented by his works; not a single sculpture survived, and the fewer than twenty paintings that remain include several that are unfinished and some in which his is not the only had. Contemporary criticism is still engaged in cutting down to size the catalogue of paintings claimed as his, a list encrusted with all kinds of additions in the nineteen century. At the same time, he is seen as one of the most ingenious and prolific of minds. Set against the small number of paintings is the extraordinary (sometimes overwhelming) number of notebooks, revealing the dazzling activity of the man of science, the engineer, the writer. His research on water, air, and the flight of birds inspired inventions and designs that only modern technology has been able to realize, including the aero plane, the parachuted, the bicycle, the tank, and the machine-gun. Finally, he must be numbered one of the most enigmatic figures in the human pantheon. Everything we know about Leonardo da Vinci and his life has been submerged under what people have wanted to believed about his art and his science.
Leonardo da Vici avoided the intrigues of worldly ambitions and vanity. He was a reserved and withdrawn man, not concerned with glory, and yet absolutely sure of the value of his abilities. A consummate intellectual endowed with an extraordinary imagination, he remains the most outstanding figure of the Renaissance.
Like Athens in the age of Pericles, Renaissance Italy is a summit in human history. Today, no name better seems to symbolize that age than Leonardo da Vinci.
"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.”
- Leonardo da Vinci
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"There are three classes of people: those who see. Those who see when they are shown. Those who do not see. ”
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"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. ”
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"Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness. ”
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"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. ”
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"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. ”
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"Time stays long enough for anyone who will use it. ”
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"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. ”
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"I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do. ”
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"Art is never finished, only abandoned. ”
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"Where the spirit does not work with the hand there is no art ”
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"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? ”
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"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation ... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind. ”
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"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions. ”
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"It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. ”
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"Learning never exhausts the mind. ”
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"Nature never breaks her own laws. ”
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"The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects. ”
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"All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. ”
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"Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes! ”
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"He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast. ”
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"In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time. ”
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As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself. ”
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People react to fear, not love - they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true. ”
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"Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous. ”
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"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death. ”
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"Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment. ”
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"Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. ”
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"Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power. ”
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"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. ”
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The Mona Lisa - by Leonardo Da Vinci
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Portrait of Mona Lisa, also known as La Gioconda, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo; This painting is painted as oil on wood. The original painting size is77 x 53 cm (30 x 20 7/8 in) and is owned by by the Government of France and is on the wall in the Louvre in Paris, France.
This figure of a woman, dressed in the Florentine fashion of her day and seated in a visionary, mountainous landscape, is a remarkable instance of Leonardo's sfumato technique of soft, heavily shaded modeling. The Mona Lisa's enigmatic expression, which seems both alluring and aloof, has given the portrait universal fame.
The Mona Lisa's famous smile represents the sitter in the same way that the juniper branches represent Ginevra Benci and the ermine represents Cecilia Gallerani in their portraits, in Washington and Krakow respectively. It is a visual representation of the idea of happiness suggested by the word "gioconda" in Italian. Leonardo made this notion of happiness the central motif of the portrait: it is this notion which makes the work such an ideal. The nature of the landscape also plays a role. The middle distance, on the same level as the sitter's chest, is in warm colors. Men live in this space: there is a winding road and a bridge. This space represents the transition between the space of the sitter and the far distance, where the landscape becomes a wild and uninhabited space of rocks and water which stretches to the horizon, which Leonardo has cleverly drawn at the level of the sitter's eyes.
The painting was among the first portraits to depict the sitter before an imaginary landscape and Leonardo was one of the first painters to use aerial perspective. The enigmatic woman is portrayed seated in what appears to be an open loggia with dark pillar bases on either side. Behind her a vast landscape recedes to icy mountains. Winding paths and a distant bridge give only the slightest indications of human presence. The sensuous curves of the woman's hair and clothing, created through sfumato, are echoed in the undulating imaginary valleys and rivers behind her. The blurred outlines, graceful figure, dramatic contrasts of light and dark, and overall feeling of calm are characteristic of da Vinci's style. Due to the expressive synthesis that da Vinci achieved between sitter and landscape it is arguable whether Mona Lisa should be considered as a traditional portrait, for it represents an ideal rather than a real woman. The sense of overall harmony achieved in the painting especially apparent in the sitter's faint smile reflects the idea of a link connecting humanity and nature.
In the Renaissance which brought together all human activities, art meant science, art meant truth to life: Leonardo da Vinci was a great figure because he embodied the epic Endeavour of Italian art to conquer universal values: he who combined within himself the fluctuating sensitivity of the artist and the deep wisdom of the scientist, he, the poet and the master.
In his Mona Lisa, the individual, a sort of miraculous creation of nature, represents at the same time the species: the portrait goes beyond its social limitations and acquires a universal meaning. Although Leonardo worked on this picture as a scholar and thinker, not only as a painter and poet, the scientific and philosophical aspects of his research inspired no following. But the formal aspect - the new presentation, the nobler attitude and the increased dignity of the model - had a decisive influence over Florentine portraits of the next twenty years, over the classical portrait. With his Mona Lisa, Leonardo created a new formula, at the same time more monumental and more lively, more concrete and yet more poetic than that of his predecessors. Before him, portraits had lacked mystery; artists only represented outward appearances without any soul, or, if they showed the soul, they tried to express it through gestures, symbolic objects or inscriptions. The Mona Lisa alone is a living enigma: the soul is there, but inaccessible.
Details of Mona Lisa Painting
Detail 1 - Her smile
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The most enigmatic and most sought after factor in the painting of Mona Lisa is its smile. This is understood that her smile has a number of things hidden.The most starking feature is that a viewer finds different shades in her smile.
Detail 2 - Her hands
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Detail of Lisa's hands, her right hand resting on her left. Da Vinci chose this gesture rather than a wedding ring to depict Lisa as a virtuous woman and faithful wife.
Detail 3 - The background
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The entire background of the Mona Lisa is a landscape. The subject is not placed under an open sky. Compared with other portraits, the Mona Lisa takes in the greatest distance, the most water, the densest atmosphere, the loftiest peaks. It also seems to be more than just a background, to be a additional imposing presence within the picture, the expanse and curvature indicating no mere scene but a portion of the globe itself.
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The Last Supper - by Leonardo Da Vinci
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The last supper is a mural painting painted from 1495 to 1498 on the back wall of the dining hall at the Dominican convent of Sta Maria delle Grazie in Italy.
Last Supper is Leonardo's visual interpretation of an event chronicled in all four of the Gospels (books in the Christian New Testament). The evening before Christ was betrayed by one of his disciples, he gathered them together to eat, tell them he knew what was coming and wash their feet (a gesture symbolizing that all were equal under the eyes of the Lord). As they ate and drank together, Christ gave the disciples explicit instructions on how to eat and drink in the future, in remembrance of him. It was the first celebration of the Eucharist, a ritual still performed.
Specifically, Last Supper depicts the next few seconds in this story after Christ dropped the bombshell that one disciple would betray him before sunrise, and all twelve have reacted to the news with different degrees of horror, anger and shock.
The painting was made using experimental pigments directly on the dry plaster wall and unlike frescos, where the pigments are mixed with the wet plaster, it has not stood the test of time well. Even before it was finished there were problems with the paint flaking from the wall and Leonardo had to repair it. Over the years it has crumbled, been vandalized bombed and restored. Today we are probably looking at very little of the original.
Much of the recent interest in the painting has centred on the details hidden within the painting, but in directing attention to these 'hidden' details, most people miss the incredible sense of perspective the work displays. The sharp angling of the walls within the picture, which lead back to the seemingly distant back wall of the room and the windows that show the hills and sky beyond. The type of day shown through these windows adds to the feeling of serenity that rests in the centre of the piece, around the figure of Christ.
Details of The Last Supper Painting
Detail 1 - Jesus
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Jesus looks sad but peaceful in the painting.
Detail 2 - Mysterious Da Vinci Code
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In the fictional book 'The Da Vinci Code', Daniel Brown has his character Teabing suggest that the figure seated to Jesus' right is not the disciple John but is instead Mary Magdalene. The theory, suggested several times in the past, is that Jesus married Mary and after the crucifixion she had a child by him.
Detail 3 - The painting with names of Apostles labeled
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From left to right:
Bartholomew, James, Judas Iscariot, Peter, John, Jesus, Thomas, James the Greater, Philip, Matthew, Jude Thaddeus and Simon the Zealot.
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The Annunciation - by Leonardo Da Vinci
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The first work of the twenty-year old master, The Annunciation is not yet what one would call Leonardesque. The composition follows a centuries old model with the angel on the left, the Virgin on the right, and a lectern in between; the whole depicted in an architectural setting that opens out onto a landscape. The kneeling angel is magnificently youthful with his high forehead, stylized wings, rich clothing, and lily. The Virgin,, surprised while reading, raises her hand in a gesture of astonishment, and displays a fine-featured face which some have described as cold. Her pose, with knees evenly spread and covered with broad and supple drapery, gives her a strong monumental character.
When the Annunciation came to the Uffizi in 1867, from the Olivetan monastery of San Bartolomeo, near Florence, it was ascribed to Domenico Ghirlandaio, who was, like Leonardo, an apprentice in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio. In 1869, Karl Eduard von Liphart, the central figure of the German expatriate art colony in Florence, recognized it as a youthful work by Leonardo da Vinci, one of the first attributions of a surviving work to the youthful Leonardo. Since then a preparatory drawing for the angel's sleeve has been recognized and attributed to Leonardo.
Verrocchio used lead-based paint and heavy brush strokes. He left a note for Leonardo to finish the background and the angel. Leonardo used light brush strokes and no lead. When the Annunciation was x-rayed, Verrocchio's work was evident while Leonardo's angel was invisible.
The product of a collaborative efforts in Verrocchiio's studio, this picture is nonetheless a masterful achievement and proof of Leonardo da Vinci's innate pictorial talent. Everything in this work is of a high poetic and stylistic quality: the handling of the figures and their attributes, the spatial construction, and the distant trees and watercourse, which attest to the artist's enduring love of nature. Many changes were to come in his painting, for da Vinci was a tireless innovator, but this picture would suffice to rank him among the greatest.
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The Adoration of the Magi - by Leonardo Da Vinci
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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 painting unfinished. It has been in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence since 1670.
The Virgin Mary and Child are depicted in the foreground and form a triangular shape with the Magi kneeling in adoration. Behind them is a semicircle of accompanying figures, including what may be a self-portrait of the young Leonardo (on the far right). In the background on the left is the ruin of a pagan building, on which workmen can be seen, apparently repairing it. On the right are men on horseback fighting, and a sketch of a rocky landscape.
The ruins are a possible reference to the Basilica of Maxentius, which, according to Medieval legend, the Romans claimed would stand until a virgin gave birth. It is supposed to have collapsed on the night of Christ's birth (in fact it was not even built until a later date). The ruins dominate a preparatory perspective drawing by Leonardo, which also includes the fighting horsemen. The palm tree in the centre has associations with the Virgin Mary, partly due to the phrase 'You are stately as a palm tree' from the Song of Solomon, which is believed to prefigure her. Another aspect of the palm tree can be the usage of the palm tree as a symbol of victory for ancient Rome, whereas in Christianity it is a representation of martyrdom—triumph over death—so in conclusion we can say that the palm in general represents triumph. The other tree in the painting is from the carob family, the seeds from the tree are used as a unit of measurement. They measure valuable stones and jewels. This tree and its seeds are associated with crowns suggesting Christ as the king of kings or the Virgin as the future Queen of heaven, also that this is nature's gift to the new born Christ. As with Michelangelo's Doni Tondo the background is probably supposed to represent the Pagan world supplanted by the Christian world, as inaugurated by the events in the foreground.
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The Adoration of the Magi is perhaps one of Leonardo da Vinci's strangest and most fertile compositions. By combining figures of pleading old men and armed horsemen, he transformed a banal biblical subject into a scene from human history. At the same time, he took the technique of non finito to its extreme. The figures and architectural elements boldly delineated and filled out in earth colors on the five boards that make up this panel anticipate the type of sketchwork that will characterize modern art. This picture is remarkable for its extreme concentration and power. Leornardo's contemporaries erroneously assumed that it was unfinished.
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The Virgin of the Rocks - by Leonardo Da VinciThe Virgin of the Rocks (sometimes The Madonna of the Rocks) is the name used for two Leonardo da Vinci's paintings, of the same subject, and of a composition which is identical except for two significant details. One painting usually hangs in the Louvre, Paris, and the other in the National Gallery, London. Both paintings show the Madonna and Christ Child with the infant John the Baptist and an angel, in a rocky setting which gives the paintings their usual name. The significant compositional differences are in the gaze and right hand of the angel. There are many minor ways in which the works differ, including the colours, the lighting, the flora, and the way in which sfumato has been used. Although the date of an associated commission is documented, the complete histories of the two paintings are unknown, and lead to speculation about which of the two is earlier.
A wish to get to the heart of nature and know the secrets was perhaps Leonardo da Vinci's main impetus in everything he did; and such interest as he had in painting might almost have been to set up rivals to nature, fusing all his knowledge of her into the creation of things super-natural. In The Virgin of the Rocks the laws are nature's but the final creation Leonardo's. And he here defies the natural in many ways that cut across previous artistic assumptions. The result is organic rather than intellectual. Other painters threw a deliberate schema over nature, seeing it in terms of conscious mingling, enriched by art, whereby buildings were allied to scenery, minor groups of figures enlivened background spaces, and objects were artistically re-arranged to mirror a cosmic order. This showed the artist's invention. In this painting Leonardo designs a grotto which is marvelous for seeming not human work at all. It appears the product of natural forces: the rocks ribbed and smoothed by the constant motion of water, present in the winding river but felt in the subaqueous light and as giving moisture for the plants - each recorded with botanical accuracy - that grow so thickly and yet are pallid.
It still seems a region untrodden by man, because the figures who kneel in the grotto have something of the same inevitable growing quality as the plants; they are no stranger in their setting, and there is no sense of their incongruity within it.
Louvre version
The Virgin of the Rocks which usually hangs in the Louvre is considered by most art historians to be the earlier of the two and date from around 1483-1486. Most authorities agree that the work is entirely by Leonardo. It is about 8 cm (3 in) taller than the London version. The first certain record of this picture is in 1625, when it was in the French royal collection. It is generally accepted that this painting was produced to fulfill a commission of 1483 in Milan. It is hypothesised that this painting was privately sold by Leonardo and that the London version was painted at a later date to fill the commission. There are a number of other theories to explain the existence of two paintings. This painting is regarded as a perfect example of Leonardo's "sfumato" technique.
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London version
A very similar painting in the National Gallery, London, is also ascribed to Leonardo da Vinci, and ascribed a date before 1508. Originally thought to have been partially painted by Leonardo's assistants, study of the painting during the recent restoration have led the conservators to conclude that the greater part of the work is by the hand of Leonardo. It was painted for the chapel of the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception, in the church of San Francesco Maggiore in Milan. It was sold by the church, very likely in 1781, and certainly by 1785, when it was bought by Gavin Hamilton, who took it to England. After passing through various collections, it was bought by the National Gallery in 1880.
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Head of a Young Woman - by Leonardo Da Vinci
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In the Leonardo da Vinci's sketches, many parts are lost in obscurity, or are left intentionally uncertain and mysterious, even in the light, and you might at first imagine some permission of escape had been here given you from the terrible law of delineation. But the slightest attempts to copy them will show you that the terminal lines are inimitably subtle, un-accusably true, and filled by gradations of shade so determined and measured that the addition of a grain of lead or chalk as large as the filament of a moth's wing would make an appreciable difference in them.
There may not be in the world another example of a genius so universal, so inventive, so incapable of fulfillment, so full of yearning for the infinite, so naturally refined, so far ahead of his own century and the following centuries. Leonardo da Vinci's figures reveal an incredible sensitivity and intellect; they are full of unexpressed ideas and feelings. Next to them, Michelangelo's characters are mere heroic athletes, Raphael's virgins only placid girls whose un-awakened souls have never know life. Leonardo's portraits feel and think through every feature and every expression; it takes some time to establish a dialogue with them; not that their feeling is not clear enough, on the contrary it bursts out of the whole figure, but it is too subtle, too complicated, too much outside and beyond ordinary experience, too unfathomable, too unexplainable. Their immobility and their silence allow us to guess two or three layers of thought and other deeper thoughts, hiding behind the most remote layer; we vaguely discern this intimate, secret world, like a delicate, unknown vegetation below the depths of a transparent water.
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The Vitruvian Man - by Da VinciThe Vitruvian Man was created by Leonardo da Vinci around the year 1487. It is accompanied by notes based on the work of the famed architect, Vitruvius Pollio. The drawing, which is in pen and ink on paper, depicts a male figure in two superimposed positions with his arms and legs apart and simultaneously inscribed in a circle and square. The drawing and text are sometimes called the Canon of Proportions or, less often, Proportions of Man. It is stored in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice, Italy, and, like most works on paper, is displayed only occasionally.
The proportinal relationship of the parts reflects universal design. And a "medical" equilibrium of elements ensures a stable structure. These qualities are thus shared equally by God's creation of the human body and the human being's own production of a good building. In the late 1480s, this theme of the artistic microcosm emerged as one of the freat unifying principles of his thought. This architectural applicaiton is not the end of the matter, however; it only represents the beginning of a concepts which had a literally universal application.
This image provides the perfect example of Leonardo's keen interest in proportion. In addition, this picture represents a cornerstone of Leonardo's attempts to relate man to nature. Encyclopaedia Britannica online states, "Leonardo envisaged the great picture chart of the human body he had produced through his anatomical drawings and Vitruvian Man as a cosmografia del minor mondo (cosmography of the microcosm). He believed the workings of the human body to be an analogy for the workings of the universe."
Leonardo da Vinci's drawing of Vitruvian Man is one of the most popular world icons. There have been countless attempts over the years to understand the composition of Leonardo's illustration of Vitruvius' principles.
Morden Representations of The Vitruvian Man
Morden Representations of The Vitruvian Man
The one euro coin has a picture of the Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci on the back.
The Vitruvian Man on Skylab 3
Skylab 3 was the second manned mission to Skylab. The Skylab 3 mission started July 28, 1973, with the launch of three astronauts on the Saturn IB rocket, and lasted 59 days, 11 hours and 9 minutes.
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The Virgin and Child with St Anne by Da Vinci
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The Virgin and Child with St Anne was painted by Leonardo Da Vinci on 1510. It is Oil on wood and measures 168 x 130 cm (5 1/2 x 4 1/2 ft.). The original one is now located at Musée du Louvre, Paris.
This painting depicted St. Anne, her daughter the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. Christ is shown grappling with a sacrificial lamb symbolising his Passion whilst the Virgin tries to restrain him. The painting was commissioned as the high altarpiece for the Church of Santissima Annunziata in Florence and its theme had long preoccupied Leonardo.
Leonardo first explored the topic of the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne around about 1498. His original sketch is now lost to us, but in the one illustrated below, commonly termed the Burlington House Cartoon, the infant Christ is shown blessing a young St. John during a meeting in the desert. This is only one of many sketches on the theme that was never translated into a painting; Leonardo was to entirely abandon these earlier ideas. Cartoons are preparatory large-scale drawings intended to be transferred to a wall or canvas during the final painting; this one was named after the British collection which once owned it. Many scholars prefer the Burlington House Cartoon to Leonardo's completed oil painting, pointing out how the face of the Madonna is much more natural and less wooden looking.
Here, he has arranged the figures as a pyramid set in a landscape. While the theme of the Virgin Mary, her mother (Anne), and Jesus was common, it is unusual for Mary to be portrayed in her mother's lap. The background landscape, whose crags are seemingly replicated in Anne's veil, virtually melts in its sfumato haze. The baby lamb is both a symbol of innocence and of Jesus' sacrifice for humanity, memorialized in John the Baptist's reference to Jesus as the "Lamb of God".
Details of The Virgin and Child with St Anne:Mary's gaze
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Mary's gaze is melancholy. She has recognized that her son must suffer his future fate. Her body still seems to be showing the tension of the previous moment when she wanted to pull her child away from the lamb, the symbol of his future suffering. St Anne is watching the events benevolently. The pyramidal composition is dynamic, yet harmoniously balanced. The colossal sense of depth created by the mountainous landscape gives the painting a perceptible peacefulness and greatness.
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Lady with an Ermine - by Da Vinci
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Lady with an Ermine is a painting by Leonardo da Vinci, from around 1489–1490. That stunning picture is 40.3 cm wide and 54.8 cm high, oil on walnut board. Unfortunately, the original background has been overlaid probably in the 17th c. The subject of the portrait is identified as Cecilia Gallerani, and was probably painted at a time when she was the mistress of Lodovico Sforza, Duke of Milan and Leonardo was in the service of the Duke.
Lady with The Ermine has been heavily over painted. The entire background was darkened, her dress below the ermine was retouched and a transparent veil being worn by the woman was repainted to match the colour of her hair. The result of this last retouching has been to give the appearance that her hair reaches down and underneath her chin. Yet another change was the addition of dark shadows between the fingers of her right hand, a close look at the bottom two fingers shows they are quite inferior to the others after an unknown restorer repainted them. An x-ray of this painting revealed the presence of a door in the original background.
Leonardo's Lady with an Ermine is one of the most important woks in all of Western art. Only a handful of authentic panel painting of him survive. Enormously curious, Leonardo often painted with experimental materials or abandoned projects once he had mastered the formal challenge each presented. An object of the greatest rarit, the Lady with an Ermine is a captivating image of exquisite elegance and reveals the artistic genius of Leonardo da Vinci's incomparable creative mind.
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Story of This Famous Painting
The Lady With An Ermine' came into Polish hands in 1800, after it was bought by the young Prince Adam Czartoryski (later a hero in the fight for Polish independence) during his tour of Italy. The painting was for his mother, a keen collector and the foundress of the Czartoryski Museum.
Princess Izabela may have been a great patriot but her handling of the Leonardo painting would have given modern art historians a heart attack. 'If it's a dog, it's a very ugly one' she remarked on receiving the portrait from the gallant Prince Adam. Taking a disliking to Leonardo's blue background, the Princess promptly had it painted jet black, and then painted on an erroneous title 'La Belle Ferronniere'' (a portrait that now hangs in the Louvre).
Standing before the painting today, you can't help feeling slightly cheated by the black background. It has the effect of rendering the Lady (allegedly a mistress of Duke Ludovico Sforza) as a kind of cardboard cut-out. You feel that she might fall out of the picture at any moment, like a character in a childrens pop-up book (a quality which Monty Python's artist Terry Gilliam had plenty of fun with in his Flying Circus adventures).
As we head further into snooty art critic territory, we should mention on the plus side that the portrait has a striking serenity about it. And the ermine itself is beautifully rendered (few modern artists could have done such a fine job). Likewise, Leonardo's handling of light and shade is as subtle as ever. However, as you'd expect from a painting that's 500 years old, all the tricks that wowed the original audience have long since been bettered by eighteenth and nineteenth century artists.
It's a bit like watching Citizen Kane, the favourite of directors such as Scorcese and Spielberg. If you are pointed out what was a novelty at the time that the work was created, then you'll want to take your hat off to the director. However, like Leonardo, Orson's thunder was stolen long ago.
In this respect you could argue that the portraits of Piotr Michalowski or Stanislaw Wyspianski (both can be found in Cracow collections) are much more engaging than the "Lady with an Ermine".
Much of this is just stating the obvious. And all said, "The Lady With An Ermine" is a fantastic painting - even though it may not astound today. It was exceptional for its time. All the same, we shouldn't feel too ashamed about not being awe-struck by the portrait today.
What is perhaps more astounding is the painting's survival. Forced into exile on many occasions, walled up in hidden cellars in country palaces and then stolen by Cracow's wartime Nazi governor, The Lady has not had an easy ride (The Czartoryski's Raphael is still missing to this day, and an empty frame hangs on the wall opposite the Leonardo).
When the "Lady With An Ermine" was initially retrieved after the Nazi invasion of 1939, an SS soldier's footprint was found on the portrait. It was a fitting metaphor for the attempts that had been made over the centuries to trample Polish cultural institutions, of which the Czartoryski Museum is one of the most radiant. It's well worth dropping by the museum if you're in Cracow - there are plenty of treasures to savour. And of course, no one will begrudge you from saying a warm hello to the Lady. Indeed, it would be unchivalrous not to!
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Portrait of Ginevra de' Benci - by Da Vinci
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Portrait of Ginevra de' Benci was painted by Leonardo da Vinci around 1474-1476. It is oil on wood and measures 42 x 37 cm (16 1/2 x 14 1/2 in.) It is now owned by National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC and is currently the only painting by Leonardo in the Americas.
Ginevra de' Benci (1457-c. 1520) was a lady of the aristocratic class in 15th century Florence, admired for her intelligence by Florentine contemporaries. She is the subject of one of only about 17 existing paintings attributed to Leonardo da Vinci.
Unlike Leonardo's other portraits of women, this lady looks sulky, unforgiving and haughty; this is emphasised by the slightly smaller cast of one eye, making her look withdrawn. Her left eye seems to gaze directly at us while the right looks beyond to some invisible point. Like other Florentine women of the period Ginevra has shaved off her eyebrows (this is also obvious in the Mona Lisa). Maybe her expression indicates she was not entirely happy regarding her forthcoming marriage. In later life she was to go into self-inflicted exile in an attempt to recover from a severe illness; she was also tormented by an ill-fated love affair.
The marble appearance of her complexion -- smoothed with Leonardo's own hand -- is framed by the undulating ringlets of her hair. This then contrasts beautifully with the halo of spikes from the juniper bush. Leonardo veiled the background of this portrait in a thin veil of mist known as sfumato (literal translation: "turned to vapour"); this being created with overlaid oil glazes. Though Leonardo did not create this effect he become well-known for his skillful use of it.
At some point this canvas has had as much as on one-third cut from the bottom (estimates put the amount removed at around nine centimetres). This area would have been large enough to show her hands, folded or crossed, and resting in her lap. Their loss is a great shame as no one painted hands as beautifully as Leonardo.
Details of the Portrait
The Reverse Side of the Portrait
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Leonardo da Vinci painted this portrait of Ginevra de' Benci, a young Florentine noblewoman who, at the age of sixteen, married Luigi Niccolini in 1474. The work may have been an engagement or wedding portrait, or it may have been commissioned by Bernardo Bembo, the Venetian Ambassador to Florence and Ginevra's close friend and admirer. On the reverse side of the painting, a wreath of laurel and palm encircles a sprig of juniper and a scroll bears the Latin inscription, "Beauty Adorns Virtue."
Finger Prints On this Portrait
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Fingerprints visible on the paint surface show how the artist used his hand as well as a brush to blend colors and create soft, delicate edges.
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St. John the Baptist - by Leonardo Da Vinci
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St. John the Baptist was painted by Leonardo da Vinci during 1513 to 1516, when the High Renaissance was metamorphosing into Mannerism, it is believed to be his last painting. This is an oil painting on walnut wood. The original size of the work was 69x57 cm. It is now exhibited at the Musée du Louvre in Paris, France.
The pointing gesture of St. John toward the heavens suggests the importance of salvation through baptism that John the Baptist represents. The work is often quoted by later painters, especially those in the late Renaissance and Mannerist schools. The inclusion of a gesture similar to John's would increase the importance of a work with a religious conceit.
Many people are critical of this work, finding it a disturbing representation of a character normally portrayed as gaunt and fiery, living in a desert and surviving on a diet of locusts and honey. In Leonardo's painting St. John seems almost to be a hermaphrodite. He has a womanish arm bent across his breast, his finger raised towards heaven, and that same enigmatic smile so admired on the face of Mona Lisa, a smile which can be seen in other Leonardo paintings like that of St. Anne. His face is almost faun-like and framed by a glorious cascade of curls. The finger pointed towards heaven was to appear quite often in Leonardo's work (the Burlington House cartoon is another example) and denotes the coming of Christ.
Leonardo was aware of the inherent dangers of this system. Earlier in his notes he warned that a figure will not be discerned against a dark background and will not appear to be detached from it. From a distance nothing will be visible but the illuminated parts. However, in the shadows of the body of St John the Baptist, Leonardo has retained just enough light for us to be able to comprehend his form fully. As in the moon, even the dark areas of his figure retain a “slight glimmer” of reflected radiance.
This is the last known major work in Leonardo's hand. The figure's haunting beauty comes from the ambiguity of its sexual identity. The luminous face seems to be an emanation of the darkness that completely envelops it. The mysterious gesture of the raised arm with upward-pointing finger is not just of religious but probably also of esoteric significance.
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The Battle of Anghiari - by Leonardo Da Vinci
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The Battle of Anghiari is a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci at times referred to as, "The Lost Leonardo", which some commentators believe to be still hidden beneath later frescoes in the Hall of Five Hundred (Salone dei Cinquecento) in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Its central scene depicted three men riding raging war-horses engaged in a battle for possession of a standard.
This is the finest known copy of Leonardo’s lost Battle of Anghiari fresco. It was made in the mid-16th century and then extended at the edges in the early 17th century by Rubens, who also completed the sword of the fourth horseman.
Sometime around October 1503, Leonardo was commissioned to paint the mural of The Battle of Anghiari, for the Sala del Gran Consiglio, the recently rebuilt Great Council Hall of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, during the first years of the city’s republican government.
An ambitious painting, Leonardo used a type of plaster which he read about in a book by Pliny, with the unfortunate result that the work he had barely begun was irreparably ruined. Problems started as soon as Leonardo placed his brush to the wall at 9 am. The weather turned bad, the sky opened and it rained then on until nightfall. The sudden humidity liquefied the paste holding the cartoon in position; as Leonardo lifted his hand to start work the cartoon slid to the floor and tore.
An encaustic (translation: 'fixing by heat') technique was that chosen for the artwork. Leonardo took the precaution of doing a trial run of this technique; it was applied to a board and dried well in a warm environment. Firstly a layer of granular plaster was applied, this being primed to a hard flat finish; over this was added a layer of resinous pitch which was applied with sponges. The combination should have supplied a suitable base for the application of oils. During the painting process an ingenious scaffolding was used to raise Leonardo to the needed height for finishing the upper portion of the centre section of this work, but though the scaffolding was a brilliant design, the painting methods chosen were absolutely disastrous.
Due to his use of experimental techniques, Leonardo's completed centre section had vanished almost entirely within only fourteen years. Vasari then painted a chaotic battle scene over the area. Ultrasonic tests were carried out in 1976; they searched for traces of Leonardo's painting and none were found.
Many, many copies of the Battle of Anghiari have been painted. Each is different, none fully captures the power of original work by Leonardo. Below is a study done by Da Vinci for the painting.
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Leonardo da Vinci Self Portrait
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This self portait was painted in 1512 using red chalk, when Leonardo da Vinci was 50 and living in France. The original painting measures 33.3 x 21.3 cm (13 1/8 x 8 3/8 in). It is now held in the magnificent collection of the Biblioteca Reale, Turin.
Leonardo da Vinci's thinking about the power of the artist can also furnish the clue to the famous enigmatic self-portrait in red chalk. It has often been remarked that on it the master looks older than his age - he can have been only about sixty when he made this drawing - and in consequence some critics have doubted whether it is a likeness of himself. Other good reasons apart, however, this portrait perfectly fits the role in which Leonardo had cast himself. A venerable old man with a long white beard, the severe eyes shaded under bushy brows, was the traditional type for representing philosophers, prophets and also God. Nobody would suggest seriously, of course, that Leonardo has drawn himself consciously in the semblance of the Almighty, but we must remember his claim that the painter contends with nature and that painting is related to God. This imposing sage who seems to have come from some other world has something of the indefinable mien of a magus, of a one who through discovering the laws of the universe knows how to manipulate them.
Legend of this Painting - Is Mona Lisa a Self Portrait?
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Some have used digital analysis to superimpose Leonardo's bearded self-portrait over the Mona Lisa to show how the facial features perfectly aligned.
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The Burlington House Cartoon - by Leonardo Da Vinci
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The Burlington House Cartoon, sometimes called The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist is a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci. The drawing is in charcoal and black and white chalk, on eight sheets of paper glued together. Because of its large size and format the drawing is presumed to be a cartoon for a painting. No painting by Leonardo exists that is based directly on this cartoon.
The drawing depicts the Virgin Mary seated on the knees of her mother St Anne and holding the Child Jesus while St. John the Baptist, the cousin of Jesus, stands to the right. It currently hangs in the National Gallery in London. It was either executed in around 1499–1500, when the artist was in Milan, or around 1506–8, when he was shuttling between Florence and Milan; the majority of scholars prefer the latter date, although the National Gallery and others prefer the former.
The subject of the cartoon is a combination of two themes popular in Florentine painting of the 15th century: The Virgin and Child with John the Baptist and The Virgin and Child with St Anne.
The drawing is notable for its complex composition, demonstrating the alternation in the positioning of figures that is first apparent in Leonardo's paintings in the Benois Madonna. The knees of the two women point different directions, with Mary's knees turning out of the painting to the left, while her body turns sharply to the right, creating a sinuous movement. The knees and the feet of the figures establish a strong up-and-down rhythm at a point in the composition where a firm foundation comprising firmly planted feet, widely spread knees and broad spread of enclosing garment would normally be found. While the lower halves of their bodies turn away, the faces of the two women turn towards each other, mirroring each other's features. The delineation between the upper bodies has lost clarity, suggesting that the heads are part of the same body.
The twisting movement of the Virgin is echoed in the Christ Child, whose body, held almost horizontal by his mother, rotates axially, with the lower body turned upward and the upper body turned downward. This turning posture is first indicated in Leonardo's painting in the Adoration of the Magi and is explored in a number of drawings, in particular the various studies of the Virgin and Child with a cat that are in the British Museum.
The juxtaposition of two sets of heads is an important compositional element. The angle, lighting and gaze of the Christ Child reproduces that of his mother, while John the Baptist reproduces these same elements in the face of St Anne. The lighting indicates that there are two protagonists, and two supporting cast in the scene that the viewer is witnessing. There is a subtle interplay between the gazes of the four figures. St Anne smiles adoringly at her daughter Mary, perhaps indicating not only maternal pride but also the veneration due to the one who "all generations will call...blessed". Mary's eyes are fixed on the Christ Child who raises his hand in a gesture of benediction over the cousin who thirty years later would carry out his appointed task of baptising Jesus. Although the older of the two children, John the Baptist humbly accepts the blessing, as one who would later say of his cousin "I am not worthy even to unloose his sandals." St Anne's hand, her index finger pointing towards the Heaven, is positioned near the heads of the children, perhaps to indicate the original source of the blessing. This enigmatic gesture is regarded as quintessentially Leonardesque, occurring in the Last Supper and St John the Baptist.
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Study of Horse - by Leonardo Da Vinci
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In 1482, Leonardo da Vinci wrote an ambitious proposal to Lodovico Sforza, the powerful Duke of Milan. In addition to offering his skills as civil engineer, architect, bridge-builder and designer of futuristic military weaponry to empower and protect Milan's soldiers against the threat of French conquest, da Vinci proposed the casting of an enormous bronze statue of a horse -- the *Il Cavallo* -- to stand guard over the Duke's castle and honor his father, Francesco Sforza. Lodovico, one of the most powerful leaders of Renaissance Italy, who spent astonishing amounts of money to advance the arts and sciences, employed da Vinci and became his most influential patron.
While da Vinci maintained his studio, oversaw the work of his apprentices, and worked on painting The Last Supper, the 24-foot-tall clay version of the great horse took shape in a vineyard near the Duke's castle. Seventy tons of bronze were set aside for the casting, but when war with Charles VIII of France appeared imminent, this resource was diverted for weapons, and The Horse maintained his vigil in clay.
In 1499 Milan fell without a fight, and victorious French archers used the clay horse for target practice -- reducing it to a pile of rubble. Da Vinci was heartbroken.
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Cannon Foundry, 1488 by Da Vinci
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A certain ambivalence is apparent in Leonardo da Vinci's military engineering. Leonardo was irresistibly attracted by the possibility of perfecting weapons, not only as a technical challenge but also more profoundly in terms of the physical principles involved. The design of cannons embodying his beloved laws of percussive motion (with acoustical implications) proved to be especially fascinating for him. But against such attractions we have to set his undoubted abhorrence of war in human terms.
Some of his most spectacularly menacing designs for military machinery, schemes for giant crossbows and such like carry strong implications of the weapons' power to subjugate their human creators, so that man becomes the helpless servant of his own inventions. His famous drawing of a cannon foundry takes this feeling a stage further, subordinating the carefully descriptive drawing of the mechanical elements to its total impact of expressive turmoil, as the Lilliputian progenitors of the obscenely monstrous gun strive frantically to deal with their creation. The emotional implications of this drawing are unmistakably the same as his profetie, recalling in particular the riddle of the cannon cast in a pit: 'Emerging from the ground with terrible noise it will stun those standing nearby and with its breath it will kill men and ruin cities and castles.' Man's brutal destructiveness towards man and nature is a recurrent theme of his literary compositions.
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Leda and the Swan by Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo was very absorbed with the theme of Leda during the time he was working on Mona Lisa and while in Milan he made many sketches of the swans in the moat around the Castello. The picture was described by Cassiano del Pozzo in 1625; at this stage it was in the royal collection in Fontainebleau:
"A standing figure of Leda almost entirely naked, with the swan at her and two eggs, from whose broken shells come forth four babies, This work, although somewhat dry in style, is exquisitely finished, especially in the woman's breast; and for the rest of the landscape and the plant life are rendered with the greatest diligence. Unfortunately the picture is in a bad state because it is done on three long panels which have split apart and broken off a certain amount of paint."
By the eighteenth century the artwork was completely lost to us; fortunately several things remain to give a good idea what it looked like. There are Leonardo's drawings of the head and bust of Leda; a famous drawing done in 1506 by Raphael; a red chalk drawing which may have been done by an assistant to Leonardo; a picture by Bugiardini which was based upon Leonardo's original cartoon (done in 1504); another copy probably by Francesco Melzi and based on Leonardo's second cartoon (drawn around 1508); plus a copy by another pupil, Cesare da Sesto; this final work is said to be closest to Leonardo's original and is displayed on this page. Leonardo's head and coiffure study for Leda and the Swan is signed; it should be noted that this is not his signature, having been added at a later date by one of the owners.
Of the two cartoons Leonardo did for this work one showed Leda kneeling and used mostly curved lines to suggest aa writhing movement which emphasised fertility; the other had her in a standing position. In the final painting Leda was in the second of the two poses and seeming to recoil from the swan, while at the same time showing a shy attraction towards it. Leda's head was modestly lowered giving a virginal look, in contrast her figure was opulent, a mature body with a young head on her shoulders. Like many of Leonardo's subjects her hair was painted in minute detail. She was surrounded by the most fertile landscape that Leonardo -- by this time aged 54 -- had produced since his workshop days. The swan was Jupiter in one of his many disguises and the babies were Castor and Pollux, and Helen and Clytemnestra.
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Benois Madonna - by Leonardo da Vinci
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During the very early years of his output Leonardo favoured the subject of the Madonna and Child. He produced several paintings on this theme along with a number of sketches and a large number of drawings. His works showed mother and child in precious private moments and focused on the emotions between them; it was Leonardo's aim that the subjects looked natural. The complexity and detail of these paintings set new standards, yet they are lesser known than his other works.
Upon first examination the Benois Madonna (also called the Madonna of the Flower), is a gay painting with obvious affection shining from the face of the Madonna's girlish face. Further study shows an aspect of grief and reminder of death hidden within the artwork in the form of a flower of the Cruciferae family depicting a cross.
This painting was named after the 19th-century artist, Leon Benois, who sold it to the Hermitage in Leningrad at the beginning of the century. It is widely accepted that this is an authentic Leonardo though not all experts have been complimentary about it:
"One unhappy day I was called to see the Benois Madonna, a picture that had turned up in Russia, and has since been acquired by the Hermitage. I found myself confronted by a young woman with a bald forehead and puffed cheeks, a toothless smile, blear eyes, and a furrowed throat. The uncanny, anile apparition plays with a child who looks like a hollow mask fixed on inflated body and limbs. The hands are wretched, the folds purposeless and fussy, the color like whey. And yet I had to acknowledge that this painful affair was the work of Leonardo da Vinci. It was hard, but the effort freed me, and the indignation I felt gave me the resolution to proclaim my freedom."--Berenson.
Perhaps the toothless can be explained by the unfinished state of the work; parts of it are obviously incomplete, with one hand only sketched in.
Dating Leonardo's early works, or proving authenticity, is particularly difficult. This picture was probably painted somewhere between 1475-1480 when it is recorded that Leonardo produced several Virgin Marys, though it has been heavily over painted since that time. A note made by Leonardo on a drawing suggests that the Benois Madonna may be one of two Virgins started in the final months of 1478, the other being the Madonna with the Carnation. Even though Leonardo was still at Verrocchio's workshop these may be the first figures he conceived and realised in total independence from his master.
In any work attributed to Leonardo it is necessary to examine what may make the piece doubtful. With Benois Madonna it is in details like the ears which are simply too inaccurate for a man who paid an almost meticulous attention to anatomy. The Child almost floats in the lap of the Virgin while her smile is almost impressionistic, not typical of Leonardo. Also lacking is the fine attention to the draperies and one might query why there is no landscape through the window.
Scholars discovered the painting in 1909 among the works of various artists being held in private collections. Tsar Nicholas II then acquired it for the Heritage in 1914 after which the attribution of this work to Leonardo was almost immediate and unamimous, though it is now questioned. Originally painted on wood, it was transferred to canvas when it entered the Hermitage, during which time it was severely damaged.
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La Belle Ferronniere - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Cecilia Gallerani was Ludovico Sforza's first mistress and Leonardo painted her in the form of Lady with an Ermine. Later, the Duke was to take another mistress, Lucrezia Crivelli, and she is thought to be the subject of this painting. An alternative suggestion, though less accepted, is that this painting is Isabella of Aragon.
This may, or may not be, Leonardo's work. The pose is stiff, which would be unusual for Leonardo, and the woman's features are thicker and heavier than those normally found in his portraits. Bernard Berenson once said of this portrait, "one would regret to have to accept this as Leonardo's own work." Those in favour of this being a genuine Leonardo point to the knotted ribbons on her shoulders and the cords around her neck which do resemble Leonardo's style.
It may be that this work was done by an apprentice, or Leonardo may have been forced to do some traditional Milanese courtly portraiture at the whim of his patron; tradition demanded an unnatural pose as shown in this painting. It also placed great importance on showy dresses, jewellery and other decorations, as shown in this work. Another possible answer is that this was a joint project carried out by several artists at the School of Leonardo, and based on a design by him.
Done around 1495 this painting takes its name from the ferroniere the sitter wears around her brow, a common Lombard fashion. In the nineteenth century this work was much admired and widely copied, though no other artist managed to capture the beautiful modelling of the face. It is thought the painting may have originally been balanced with an architectural element on the left but this is one work over which there are more questions than answers.
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Litta Madonna - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Though a drawing exists to connect Leonardo with this painting its attribution to Leonardo has been a great source of controversy. There is little doubt he had a hand in the unsigned Litta Madonna, but it is awkwardly composed and more than likely was completed by his pupil Boltraffio, around 1480-1490.
The tilt of the Madonna's head is typical of Leonardo and there also exists a drawing of this portion of the painting which is definitely by his hand. However, scholars who have studied the painting point out that the Christ Child bears little resemblance to others Leonardo produced. It is therefore likely that Leonardo designed the pose for this work -- and completed the Virgin's head -- with the rest of the painting being completed by another artist, perhaps Boltraffio, under the supervision of the master.
This work shows the Madonna sorryling the Christ Child. Note the lack of halos in this painting; several Madonnas attributed to Leonardo display this same trait.
Litta Madonna passed from the hands of the Vicontis into the Litta family of Milan and takes its name from them. After this it was purchased by a Tsar; then in 1865 by Emperor Alexander II who added it to the Hermitage where it was transferred from wood to canvas. At this point in time it was completely repainted -- for the second time; the first repainting was done by an unknown Milanese artist in 1495.
Replicas of this painting are common, strongly indicating it was a famous composition. The painting is now displayed in the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg.
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Portrait of a Musician - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Much debate surrounds this painting dating from the same period as Lady With An Ermine. If indeed Leonardo was the painter, Portrait Of A Musician would be the only portrait he did of a man. This painting is completely lacking in documentation and there is no record of anyone ever having commissioned it. Often considered to be his least important work, the fates have arranged that it should be the best preserved.
The first issue that arises with this panel is who really painted it. While hanging in the Louvre (1796-1815) it was listed as being by Bernadino Luini. In Milan, before and after that time, it was usually attributed to Leonardo. Other experts consider the artist was either Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio or Ambrogio de Predis.
The second issue is that of who the sitter was. In the nineteenth century the catalogue of the Biblioteca Ambrosiana listed this painting as "Portrait of Ludovico il Moro"; that was accepted without question until a 1905 cleaning revealed the sheet music along with the letters 'CANT...ANG...'. Now there was no doubt the subject was a musician, but which one was a another matter. Was it: Franchino Gaffario, choirmaster of Milan cathedral, (the text could be an abbreviation of the words Canticum Angelicum).Attalante Miglioretti, resident in Milan until 1490.Angelo Testagrossa, singer and singing master (perhaps the inscription reads cantor Angelo?)
Most historians think the portrait is probably of Franchino Gaffario but the connection is tenuous at best, as is evidence that this painting is by Leonardo. Various historians, remembering Leonardo's fondness for puzzles, have tried to read something into this piece of sheet music, so far without luck.
So, what makes this panel a possible Leonardo da Vinci? The answer lies in a certain kind of portraiture and common characteristics which exist in each of his portraiture works. These include the following things:
Backgrounds left in shadow.
Figures shown at half-length or slightly more.
Subjects carefully positioned at a three-quarter turn so as to improve viewer identification of the sitter.
Despite the third point, Leonardo's subjects remain largely unidentified. When it comes down to the nitty gritty all we can say for certain regarding Portrait Of A Musician is what we see in front of our eyes; things like how well the artist obviously understood the bone structure beneath the flesh, how unforced the pose is, the exquisitely curling hair and elegant fingers very common to Leonardo's work. Leonardo himself was a very fine musician.
Heavily restored and repainted this work was left unfinished, though at quite an advanced stage. The face and hair are well worked and the notes of a musical partition can be clearly seen. The remaining elements were left in the state of an advanced draft, this is most obvious in the tunic worn by the subject.
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Madonna of the Yarnwinder - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo did complete this very small painting but the original has probably been lost. Several copies still exist and there is strong speculation that two of these are from the hand of Leonardo himself, but this is still the subject of some debate and they could just have easily come from talented pupils. The original work can be securely dated at 1501 as a letter from April of that year mentions Leonardo is working on Madonna of the Yarnwinder.
One of the most interesting and complete sketches Leonardo ever did was for this painting; a close look shows this work was based around the geometric figures of triangles and ellipses. An excellent red chalk drawing of the Madonna's head and shoulders also exists in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle.
This work, intended for Florimond Robertet, Secretary to the King of France, shows the winder as shaped like a cross; this symbolises the Passion of Christ and His future death. It appears that Mary wants to pull the Child away from the symbol of His future, but even she is powerless to prevent the Crucifixion which is part of His destiny. Of the two works one is very green whilst the other is quite blue; the landscapes also differ significantly with one showing a vicious mountain range beneath a vivid blue sky while the other runs down to the sea.
Leonardo prepared for paintings that included the Christ child or the infant St. John the Baptist by drawing dozens of studies of little children. Most of his children appear between nine and eighteen months, all are shown nude and all look similar enough as to make the viewer wonder whether the one child modelled for each painting.
This painting is sometimes called Madonna of the Spindle or the Madonna with the Distaff.
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Bacchus - by Leonardo da Vinci
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The Louvre holds this artwork of Bacchus which some have ascribed to Leonardo. Transferred to canvas at some stage during the nineteenth century others consider it was more likely to have been painted by Cesare da Sesto, Bernazzano, Francesco Melzi or a 'Lombard painter'.
Deterioration of this painting has made it difficult to judge who the painter may have been, but the background does not seem to be typical of Leonardo, lacking his descriptive qualities. On top of this no preliminary studies have been found for this artwork. However, the pointing finger in this painting indicates that whoever the painter really was, the original subject is likely to have been St. John and the painting was originally called St. John the Baptist in the Desert, a name which was later changed to Bacchus in a Landscape.
A number of items were later additions: the panther skin, crown of vine leaves and grapes not being part of the original work. The cross in the crook of St. John's arm also had the bar removed changing it to a thyrsus. (A thyrsus was simply a staff often wreathed in ivy and decorated with pine cones, berries or grapes).
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Dreyfus Madonna - by Leonardo da Vinci
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The Dreyfus Madonna (named for Gustave Dreyfus who owned the painting from 1872 until 1930) has critics divided over who painted this small panel. Also known as the Madonna with the Pomegranate it has been variously attributed to Leonardo, Verrocchio and Lorenzo di Credi.
Showing strong similarities to Madonna with the Carnation it has a Venetian flavour and the style gives it a suggested date of around 1469. This coincides with the year Verrocchio made his trip to Venice, closely followed by Leonardo.
It is often difficult to distinguish the works of masters over skilled pupils. At the time it was common practice for a master to give lesser commissions over to those in his workshop. Larger works were frequently the effort of many painters with the master doing the main sections and the assistants being allocated areas like backgrounds or secondary figures (this can be seen in the Baptism of Christ, also documented on this Web site). The master would then approve that the work had been done to his standards.
Dreyfus Madonna has a lack of harmony, the posture of the child is awkward and the figures hardly relate to the background or architecture. Despite this there are details which are the signature of Leonardo - the Virgin's crooked finger and the smoky shadowing or sfumato around her face. Opponents of the suggestion that this painting was by Leonardo point to parallels between this panel and the works of Lorenzo di Credi. Which artist from Verrocchio's workshop was ultimately responsible is certain to remain the subject of much debate.
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Madonna of the Carnation - by Leonardo da Vinci
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In Madonna of the Carnation Jesus reaches out awkwardly for the flower held delicately in Mary's fingers. Like all infants he looks yet unable to control his movements as he attempts to grasp the symbol of the Passion.
Showing strong similarities to Madonna with the Carnation it has a Venetian flavour and the style gives it a suggested date of around 1469. This coincides with the year Verrocchio made his trip to Venice, closely followed by Leonardo.
Dating from 1478-1480, this painting, also known as the Munich Madonna or the Madonna with the Vase due to the vase of flowers sitting beside her, is usually considered one of Leonardo's first autonomous works. Many scholars disagree on this point, but there are a number of elements which support the idea.
One of his drawings shows some of the details which appear in the Virgin's face, and the hair, left-hand of the Madonna, landscape, draperies and the cushion on which the child is seated are all typical of Leonardo, as is the use of chiaroscuro.
Unfortunately, Madonna with the Carnation has deteriorated badly and due to an improper restoration the surface has taken on a leathery look; this is especially obvious on the Madonna's face.
This painting in held in the collection of the Alte Pinakothek (translation: old art gallery. Pronounced: ALL-tuh peen-ah-ko-tek) in Munich, Germany.
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St. Jerome in the Desert - by Leonardo da Vinci
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It was during a difficult period in his life, just prior to departing for Milan in 1482, that Leonardo worked on his most tragic painting and yet another destined to remain unfinished. He was a man often subject to bouts of melancholy; notes in his diary show how low he was feeling at this time in his life. Comments found in the margin of the Codex Atlanticus:
"Why do you suffer so? The greater one is, the greater grows one's capacity for suffering. I thought I was learning to live; I was only learning to die."
Jerome's imploring face is at a three-quarter angle; it is haggard from fasting and penitence; at the same time his eyes display determination and will-power. In his out-stretched right hand he clasps a rock, the penitent about to strike his own breast. Making this all the more dramatic is the setting of the subject against the dark background of a cave. Off to one side another of Leonardo's rocky landscapes rises into the mist.
St. Jerome in the Desert is a wonderful pictorial presentation of the artist's emotional turmoil during that period. It is also notable for how well it demonstrates Leonardo's anatomical knowledge. The saint's muscles and bones are covered with a thin layer of flesh, with cheek and neck muscles being accurately drawn.
The story of this painting is a little unbelievable, but as interesting as one could hope for. Originally in the Vatican collection it passed into the hands of Angelica Kaufmann. Supposedly it was then mislaid and someone cut it into two pieces. One section was converted into a table top while a shoemaker used the other portion for the upper part of a stool. Joseph Cardinal Fesch recognised the table painting in 1820; it is assumed he had already seen a drawing of the work somewhere. He purchased it from the Roman junk shop hoping to locate the missing segment, something he succeeded in doing several years afterwards. The painting was restored though obvious evidence of the cut out section can still be clearly seen. Heirs of Napoleon Bonaparte's uncle (Cardinal Fesch) later sold the ochre groundwork for twenty-five francs to Pope Pius IX; it was then placed back into the care of the Vatican where it still resides today.
This is one of the very few paintings attributed to Leonardo over which there has never been any question. No contemporary references to the work have been found yet it is considered unmistakably his painting methods and structure; the similarity to Adoration of the Magi is also obvious.
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Profile of a Warrior in Helmet - by Leonardo Da Vinci
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This study is drawn in metalpoint, specifically silverpoint, a popular medium with Early Renaissance artists. It is most suitable for detailed and careful drawings,. Metalpoint was a good method of training young apprentice artists as it required control and discipline. Here, the silverpoint line, which has turned grey in the atmosphere, is thin and delicate. The detail is extraordinary: the armour, the curls in his hair and the splendid elaborate helmet are even exceeded by the modelling of the man's face and the lion on his breastplate. Endless patience must have been required of the young Leonardo to produce the very fine shadows of the man's face, each a separate line.
The drawing shows Leonardo studying the art of his teacher, Andrea Verrocchio. Giorgio Vasari's biography of Verrocchio in his Lives of the Artists (1550 and 1568) mentions two metal reliefs with profile portraits of Alexander the Great, leader of the Greeks, and Darius, the Persian king. They were sent by Lorenzo 'il Magnifico' ('the Magnificent') de' Medici, ruler of Florence (1469-92), as gifts to the king of Hungary. This drawing is probably based on one of these lost works by Verrocchio.
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Da Vinci's Invention
Leonardo Da Vinc's Dream of FlyingFor much of his life, Leonardo was fascinated by the phenomenon of flight, producing many studies of the flight of birds, including his c. 1505 Codex on the Flight of Birds, as well as plans for several flying machines, including a helicopter and a light hang glider. Most were impractical, like his aerial screw helicopter design that could not provide lift. However, the hang glider has been successfully constructed and demonstrated.
Leonardo da Vinci was much more than an artist. He was an astronomer, sculptor, geologist, mathematician, botanist, animal behaviourist, inventor, engineer, architect and even a musician. He was all of these things and more. As the world faces a new millennium Leonardo da Vinci remains one of the most fascinating people history has ever known. He once said that "things of the mind left untested by the senses are useless." Leonardo left little untested, yet few people know the amazing story behind the man often described as the embodiment of the Renaissance. This Web site endeavours to introduce you to the artist, the scientific visionary, the amazing inventor and Leonardo, the man. One can never explain the existence of genius, one can but enjoy.
Drawings of Flying Machine
Helicopter
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Leonardo envis ioned this device to be built of wood, reeds and tafetta. "A small model can be made of paper with a spring like metal shaft that after having been released, after having been twisted, causes the screw to spin up into the air."
Flying Machine 1488
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Design for a Flying Machine is a 1488 drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.
Another Design
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Design for a Flying Machine is a 1488 drawing by Leonardo da Vinci.
Design of a Glider
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Drawing by Leonardo da Vinci for a gilder with bat's wings.
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The precursor to the modern tank, Leonardo da Vinci’s armored car invention was capable of moving in any direction and was equipped with a large number of weapons. The most famous of da Vinci’s war machines, the armored car was designed to intimidate and scatter an opposing army.
Leonardo drew the plans for the first armored car in 1485. Leonardo da Vinci described his idea for an "armored car" in a job application to the Duke of Milan in 1482: "I can make armored cars, safe and unassailable, which will enter the close ranks of the enemy with their artillery, and no company of soldiers is so great that they will not break through them. And behind these the infantry will be able to follow quite unharmed and without any opposition."
Da Vinci’s vehicle has a number of light cannons arranged on a circular platform with wheels that allow for 360-degree range. The platform is covered by a large protective cover (much like a turtle’s shell), reinforced with metal plates, which was to be slanted to better deflect enemy fire. There is a sighting turret on top to coordinate the firing of the canons and the steering of the vehicle.
Covered Armoured Car Invention
Model of the Armoured Car
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Model of da Vinci's "Armoured Car" at the Galleria Michelangelo in Florence, Italy.
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Attempting to increase the fire power of a traditional cannon, Leonardo da Vinci designed this innovative 12-barreled gun carriage. Though hardly capable of rapid-fire, this design housed an ingenious aiming and loading mechanism. The fan-like shape made it a potentially effective weapon against massed advancing troops, by widening the field of fire and reducing possible mistakes. Additionally, its lightweight and large wheels would have provided for excellent mobility on the battlefield.
The aim of the tiers is that in rotation, the first tier is fired while the second tier can be loaded. This allows for the third tier to cool down before its turn in the rotation to be loaded and fired again.
Leonardo always aimed to increase the firepower of the weapons he worked on and to maximize their overall destructive capacity. He did this for both his Patron’s benefit in having superior firepower compared to his rivals and for his own personal, intellectual curiosity.
More about the Machine Gun
A Modern Illustration of the Design
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A Modern Machine Gun
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Da Vinci's Invention
Parachute - by Leonardo Da Vinci(https://friendstamilchat.in/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.leonardodavinci.net%2Fimages%2Fgallery%2Fparachute.jpg&hash=d96b1032f2d709725bd67f159c7245a3dd89f6f2)
The first parachute had been imagined and sketched by Leonardo Da Vinci in the 15th century. It’s hard to believe something as “modern” as a parachute could be invented over 500 years ago. Leonardo’s parachute design consists of sealed linen cloth held open by a pyramid of wooden poles, about seven metres long. Still, because his ideas were way ahead of his time, the technology was not able to sustain his ideas, t hus nobody invented a practical parachute until 1783.
The Parachute was Proved to Work
Test on 2000 by Adrian Nicholas
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Leonardo Da Vinci was proved right on Monday, June 26, 2000, some 500 years after he sketched the design for the world's first known parachute. A British man, Adrian Nicholas, dropped from a hot air balloon 3,000 meters (10,000 feet) above the ground, after ignoring expert advice that the canvas and wood contraption would not fly. Attempts to fully test the parachute in the UK earlier this year failed due problems of wind and safety near populated areas - it weighs a hefty 85 kilograms (187 pounds). But in the wide open spaces of Mpumalanga, South Africa, Mr. Nicholas safely floated down, saying the ride was smoother than with modern parachutes. Beautiful drop Heathcliff O'Malley, who photographed the drop from a helicopter, told BBC News Online: "It was amazing, really beautiful. But none of us knew if it would fold up and Adrian would plummet to Earth." He added: "It works, and everyone thought it wouldn't."
Test on 2008 by Adrian Nicholas
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On April 2008, a Swiss man Olivier Vietti-Teppa used a sketch by Leonardo da Vinci from 1485 to create a pattern and build a parachute. Vietti-Teppa did wear a back-up modern chute but wasn’t forced to put the current design into action after he jumped out of a plane.
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Da Vinci's Invention
Designs for a Scythed Chariot - by Leonardo Da Vinci(https://friendstamilchat.in/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.leonardodavinci.net%2Fimages%2Fgallery%2Fscythed-chariot.jpg&hash=46707cbda96f5415df5344e811e04d0913e1ce8d) (http://www.friendstamilchat.com)
Leonardo's extensive studies of weaponry correspond closely in scope and ambition to the claims he made in his letter to Ludovico, embracing all types of contraptions, both ancient and modern: he drew up annotated lists of classical devices, based upon sources such as Valturio and Vitruvius; he worked on feasible designs for modern cannons, crossbows, etc., with careful investigations of their ballistics; and he sketched military fantasies which certainly outstrip the technological realities of the period.
One family of designs from the 1480s combines all these elements at the same time: classical precedent, military reality and a dash of inventive fancy. The illustrated example shows one of his many schemes for scythed chariots of a decidedly nasty kind; a related drawing in Turin (Royal Library) displays its chopped-up victims to underline its intended effect. Such designs were generically based upon classical descriptions and were conceived as much for their sense of stylishness as for their practicality in modern warfare. Indeed, he followed Valturio in doubting the value of such scythed chariots, pointing out that they 'often did as much injury to friends as they did to enemies' . Below the chariot drawing is a disarmingly charming idea for a deadly woodlouse which was intended to scuttle across the battlefield on its four wheels, dispensing a hail of shots from around its rim. Similarly automated systems of multiple weapons, deploying arrays of crossbows or closely ranked gun barrels, occur regularly in his Milanese drawings.
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Da Vinci's Invention
Robotic Knight - by Leonardo da Vinci(https://friendstamilchat.in/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.leonardodavinci.net%2Fimages%2Fgallery%2FAnatomical-studies-of-the-shoulder.jpg&hash=1dc56b8146bfd4531aecfd8f7e611c5b93bb6e6c) (http://www.friendstamilchat.com)
If Da Vinci's self-propelled cart was the first working design for a robotic vehicle, then the robotic knight would have been the first humanoid robot, a real 15th century C-3PO. Da Vinci was fascinated by human anatomy and spent long hours dissecting corpses in order to figure out how the human body worked. This gave him an understanding of how muscles propelled bone. He reasoned that these same principles could be applied to a machine. Unlike most of da Vinci's inventions, Leonard apparently actually built the robotic knight, though it was used primarily for entertainment at parties thrown by his wealthy patron Lodovico Sforza.
Da Vinci's robot has not survived and no one knows exactly what it was capable of doing, but apparently it could walk, sit down and even work its jaw. It was driven by a system of pulleys and gears. In 2002, robotics expert Mark Rosheim used da Vinci's notes to build a working model of da Vinci's robotic knight and some of the concepts behind it have subsequently been used by Rosheim for the design of planetary exploration robots to be used by NASA. So after half a century of space exploration, da Vinci's designs have finally made it into outer space.
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Da Vinci's Invention
Ball Bearing - by Leonardo da Vinci(https://friendstamilchat.in/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.leonardodavinci.net%2Fimages%2Fgallery%2Fball-bearing.jpg&hash=e010131e4aca3afe7f511a088cf8964fb1df1e4b)
As an invention, the ball bearing doesn't seem all that impressive, but much of modern technology depends on it. Ball bearings make it possible for drive shafts to rotate, for goods to roll along ramps in a factory or store, and for mechanical devices in general to operate. By placing a smoothly rolling sphere between moving surfaces, ball bearings eliminate friction. The idea can be traced back to the Roman Empire, but many historians believe that da Vinci's notebooks contain the first practical designs. Many of the devices that he conceived depend on them and wouldn't have operated without them. Of course, as with many of da Vinci's ideas, the concept was never made widely known and the ball bearing had to be reinvented by someone else.
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Da Vinci's Invention
Diving Suit - by Leonardo da Vinci(https://friendstamilchat.in/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.leonardodavinci.net%2Fimages%2Fgallery%2Fdiving-suit.jpg&hash=427b8bd37cd1f5c5b84df43019d2b60090b442ac)
While living in Venice in the late 15th century, da Vinci devised a far-fetched idea for repelling invading ships: Send men to the bottom of the harbor in diving suits and let them cut holes in enemy hulls. Well, maybe that doesn't sound so far-fetched any more. It's fairly common now for frogmen with scuba gear to engage in underwater sabotage. In da Vinci's time, however, the idea was unheard of. Da Vinci's divers would have carried breathing hoses connected to a floating bell full of air, wearing facemasks with glass goggles that would help them see underwater. In another version of the concept, the divers would have breathed from wine bladders filled with air. In both versions, the men would carry a bottle to urinate in so that they could stay underwater indefinitely. Da Vinci's design was not only feasible - it was practical!
These diving suits might actually have been constructed, except that the invaders they were intended to repel were driven away by the Venetian navy before underwater sabotage became necessary.
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
A plan of Imola - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
A seated man and studies and notes on the movement of water - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
A study for an equestrian monument - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Allegory - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
An Artillery Park - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Anatomical studies of a male shoulder - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Anatomical studies of the shoulder - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Anatomy of the Neck - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Automobile - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Birch copse - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Birds Eye View of a Landscape - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Birds eye view of sea coast - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Bust of a man in profile with measurements and notes - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Canal bridge - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Cannon foundry - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Caricature 2 - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Caricature 3 - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Caricature - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Casting mold of the head and neck - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Codex on the flight of birds - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Comparison of scalp skin and onion - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Crossbow Machine - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Deluge over a city - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Design for a Flying Machine 2 - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Design for a Flying Machine - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Design for a helicopter - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Design for a machine for grinding convex lenses - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Design for a parabolic compass - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Design for an enormous crossbow - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Designs for a Boat - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Drapery for a seated figure - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Drawing of a botanical study - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Drawing of a fancy dress costume - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Drawing of a Womans Torso - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Drawing of an equestrian monument - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Drawing of an flood - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Drawing of drapery - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Drawing of lilies for an Annunciation - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Drawing of locks on a river - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Drawing of Salai - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Drawing of the comparative anatomy of the legs of a man and a dog - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Drawing of the Torso and the Arms - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Drawing of the uterus of a pregnant cow - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Drawings of a bird in flight - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Drawings of machines - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Drawings of Water Lifting Devices - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Equestrian monument - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Female Head - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Five caricature heads - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Flying machine- by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Galloping Rider and other figures - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Grotesque Profile - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Group of riders in the Battle of Anghiari - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Head of a girl - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Head of a Man - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Head of a Young Woman with Tousled Hair - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Head of an Old Man - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Head of Leda - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Head of Saint Anne - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Heads of an old man and a youth - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Heart and its Blood Vessels - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Isabella dEste - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Landscape drawing for Santa Maria della Neve - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Landscape near Pisa - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Lily - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Manuscript page on the Sforza monument - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Masquerader in the guise of a Prisoner - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Matched Couple - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Natural disaster - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Old man with ivy wreath and lions head - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Page from a notebook showing figures fighting on horseback and on foot - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Perspectival study of the Adoration of the Magi - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Profile of a warrior in helmet - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Profile of an old man - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Rearing horse - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Scythed Chariot - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Seated old man - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Sedge - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Self Portrait - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Spring Device - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Stof Bethlehem and other plants - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Storm over a landscape - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Studies for a Nativity - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Studies for the heads of two soldiers in The Battle of Anghiari - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Studies of a BeWalking - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Studies of central plan buildings - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Studies of crabs - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Studies of human skull - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Studies of the Arm showing the Movements made by the Biceps - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Studies of the foetus in the womb - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Studies of the Villa Melzi and anatomical study - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Studies of Water passing Obstacles and falling - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Studies of water - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study for Madonna and Child with St Anne - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study for Madonna with the Yarnwinder - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study for St Anne - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study for the Adoration of the Magi - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study for the Head of Leda - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study for the Last Supper 2 - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study for the Last Supper 3 - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study for the Last Supper James - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study for the Last Supper Judas - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study for the Last Supper- by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study for the Madonna with the Fruit Bowl - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study for the Trivulzio Equestrian Monument - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study for the Trivulzio monument - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of a central church - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of a child with a cat - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Study of a child - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of a Figure for the Battle of Anghiari - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of a rider - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of a womans head - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of an apostles head and architectural study - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of an Old Man - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of Arms and Hands - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of battles on horseback and on foot - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of battles on horseback - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of Christ for the Last Supper - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of five grotesque heads - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of hands - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of horses 1 - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of horses for the Battle of Anghiari - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of horses - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of nursing Madonna and profile heads - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of proportion - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of St Anne Mary and the Christ Child - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of St Anne Mary the Christ Child and the young St John - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of the Graduations of Shadows on Spheres - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of the Hanged Bernardo di Bandino Baroncelli assassin of Giuliano de Medici - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of the Madonna and Child with a Cat - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of water - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study on the proportions of head and eyes - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study sheet with cats dragon and other animals - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study sheet with horses - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study sheet - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
The anatomy of a foot - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
The proportions of the head - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
topographical drawing of a river valley - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Study of the effect of light on a profile head - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
View of a Skull 2 - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
View of a Skull - by Leonardo da Vinci
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Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
Views of a Foetus in the Womb - by Leonardo da Vinci
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