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Masterpieces by Leonardo da Vinci. Painting Gallery. Drawing Gallery. Famous Quotes.
At his death in 1519, Leonardo left many notebooks filled with jottings and sketches but very few finished works. Some of his pieces were completed by assistants, but others were lost, destroyed, or overpainted. Below are 10 examples of some of his most well-known surviving works.
Leonardo da Vinci, the Renaissance genius, revolutionized art and science with his masterpieces like the Mona Lisa while pioneering advancements in anatomy, engineering, and invention.
His drawing techniques range from rather rapid pen sketches, in The Head of a Man in Profile Facing to The Left (10.45.1), to carefully finished drawings in red and black chalks, as in The Head of the Virgin (51.90). These works also demonstrate his fascination with physiognomy, and contrasts between youth and old age, beauty and ugliness.
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High resolution - 17 artworks. View all 8 items. Leonardo da Vinci lived in the XV – XVI cent., a remarkable figure of Italian High Renaissance. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Like a number of other drawings associated with the Louvre painting of the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, this sheet is an important example of Leonardo’s innovative development of complex pictorial techniques of drawing, in order to materialize his scientific research on the perspective of color, the disappearance of form, and the gradations...
The Leonardo Da Vinci Galleries A scenographic itinerary among 170 historical models, works of art, ancient volumes and installations to tell the story of Leonardo, engineer and humanist....
Leonardo da Vinci's drawings would become an essential part of his legacy. Da Vinci sketched prolifically, planning inventions, exploring human anatomy, drawing landscapes, and blocking out plans for paintings such as The Virgin of the Rocks and his sole surviving mural, The Last Supper.
Title: Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Diagram of a Perspectival Projection (recto); Slight Doodles (verso) Artist: Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, Vinci 1452–1519 Amboise) Date: 1480–85.