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Ginevra de' Benci is a portrait painting by Leonardo da Vinci of the 15th-century Florentine aristocrat Ginevra de' Benci (born c. 1458).It was acquired by the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. US from Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein in February 1967 for a record price for a painting of between $5 and $6 million. [1]
Studies of the Fetus in the Womb are two coloured annotated sketches by Leonardo da Vinci made in around 1511. [1] The studies correctly depict the human fetus in its proper position inside a dissected uterus. [2]
The Lady with an Ermine [n 1] is a portrait painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci. Dated to c. 1489–1491 , the work is painted in oils on a panel of walnut wood . Its subject is Cecilia Gallerani , a mistress of Ludovico Sforza ("Il Moro"), Duke of Milan ; Leonardo was painter to the Sforza court in Milan at the time of ...
The Study for the Head of Saint Anne is a drawing on paper executed in black stone by Leonardo da Vinci and preserved at Windsor Castle.It is a portrait of a woman, and is considered to be the preparatory study for the head of Saint Anne in the painting Sainte Anne, la Vierge et l'Enfant Jésus jouant avec un agneau (Saint Anne, the Virgin and the Child Jesus Playing with a Lamb) in the Louvre ...
Follower of Leonardo da Vinci (could possibly be Salai), Head of the Virgin, between 1508 and 1513, Vienna , Albertina Museum, inv. n° 17613. The drawing was the subject of copies by followers, including one in particular that was sometimes even attributed to the master, and in any case was contemporary with him.
Art historians say Leonardo da Vinci hid an optical illusion in the Mona Lisa's face: she doesn't always appear to be smiling. There's question as to whether it was intentional, but new research ...
La Scapigliata (Italian for 'The Lady with Dishevelled Hair') [n 1] is an unfinished painting generally attributed to the Italian High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, and dated c. 1506–1508. Painted in oil , umber , and white lead pigments on a small poplar wood panel , its attribution remains controversial, with several experts ...
Leonardo da Vinci began studying the anatomy of the human body in the late 1470s and may have participated in the first dissections at the University of Padua. His records indicate that he began performing autopsies himself around 1505. [3] By the year 1518, he reported that he had performed a total of thirty autopsies during his lifetime.