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The Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was the founding figure of the High Renaissance, and exhibited enormous influence on subsequent artists.Only around eight major works—The Adoration of the Magi, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, the Louvre Virgin of the Rocks, The Last Supper, the ceiling of the Sala delle Asse, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist ...
The Great Kite (Italian: il Grande Nibbio) was a wooden machine designed by Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo realized it between the end of the 15th Century and the beginning of the 16th Century. Drawings of parts and components of this machine can be found in the Codex on the flight of birds, which however lacks the overall description of the ...
The Death of Leonardo da Vinci, by Ingres, 1818 [u] The 19th century brought a particular admiration for Leonardo's genius, causing Henry Fuseli to write in 1801: "Such was the dawn of modern art, when Leonardo da Vinci broke forth with a splendour that distanced former excellence: made up of all the elements that constitute the essence of ...
Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci (20 P) P. Paintings by Leonardo da Vinci (2 C, 26 P) Leonardo da Vinci projects (1 C, 11 P) ... A Treatise on Painting This page was ...
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 06:17, 20 August 2010: 1,122 × 604 (89 KB): Sailko {{Information |Description=LEONARDO da Vinci Drawing of a flying machine Pen and ink on paper, 23 x 16 cm Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France, Paris |Source=www.wga.hu |Date=c. 1485 |Author= see filename or category |Permission={{PD-Art}} |other_versio
The Vitruvian Man, c. 1490. Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was an Italian polymath, regarded as the epitome of the "Renaissance Man", displaying skills in numerous diverse areas of study.
There's question as to whether it was intentional, but new research into a second painting attributed. Art historians say Leonardo da Vinci hid an optical illusion in the Mona Lisa's face: she ...
The Codex Atlanticus is the largest single collection of drawings and writings (in Italian) by polymath Leonardo da Vinci, containing 1,119 paper leaves (2,238 pages) [a] arranged into 12 leather-bound volumes. [1] Its size and scope has led art historian Carlo Pedretti to recognize it as the most important of Leonardo's manuscripts. [2]