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Vinci, Leonardo da (1452-1519)

Creator details

Name
Vinci, Leonardo da (1452-1519)
Nationality
Italian
Biography
Leonardo was born near Vinci, at Anchiano. He is known as the founder of the High Renaissance style. His work was extremely influential for contemporary and later artists. His writings on art and perception codified the ideals of representation and expression that dominated European teaching for the next 400 years. He is famed for his drawing of figures, representations of landscape, depiction of aerial perspective and space, the use of light and shade (chiaroscuro), and the evocation of the sitters' characters. He was also known for inventions in architecture and engineering. He often left his works unfinished, apparently losing interest after the conception of the idea. Among his best known surviving works are the Last Supper" fresco in Milan and the "Mona Lisa" portrait in the Louvre
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Assets (3165 in total)

Mona Lisa, c.1503-6 (oil on panel)
Vitruvian Man, c.1492 (pen & ink on paper)
The Last Supper, 1495-97 (fresco) (post restoration)
Head of a Young Woman with Tousled Hair or Leda (gouache on wood)
The Last Supper, 1495-97 (fresco) (post restoration)
The Lady with the Ermine (Cecilia Gallerani), c.1490 (oil and tempera on panel)
Virgin and Child with St. Anne, c.1510 (oil on panel)
St. John the Baptist, 1513-16 (oil on canvas)
Portrait of a Lady from the Court of Milan, c.1490-95 (oil on panel)
Annunciation, 1472-75 (oil on panel) (post restoration)
Mona Lisa, c.1503-6 (oil on panel) (detail of 3179)
Sketch of a roaring lion (red chalk on paper)
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