Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)

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Leonardo da Vinci

(1452 - 1519)

Leonardo da Vinci. Self-Portrait.

Biography


Leonardo da Vinci was the embodiment of the Renaissance ideal of the universal man, the first artist to attain complete mastery over all branches of art. He was a painter, sculptor, architect and engineer besides being a scholar in the natural sciences, medicine and philosophy.
            He was born on the 15th of April, 1452 as an illegitimate son of the notary Ser Piero di Antonio da Vinci and his mother, a peasant woman Caterina, in a small town called Vinci, near Empoli, Tuscany. The first four years of his life were spent in a small village near Vinci with his mother. After 1457, he lived in his father's family, which soon moved to Florence. At the age of 15 he became an apprentice of the Florentine painter and sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio and although in 1472 he entered the San Luca guild of painters in Florence, which would indicate that he had attained a degree of professional independence, he remained with Andrea del Verrocchio until 1480. Continued...

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Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci. The Baptism of Christ. c.1472-1475. Oil and tempera on wood. Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. More.
The Annunciation. c. 1472-1475. Oil and tempera on wood. Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. More.
The Annunciation (detail). c. 1472-1475. Oil and tempera on wood. Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. More.
Antique Warrior. c. 1472. Metalpoint on prepared paper. The British Museum, London, UK.
Arno Landscape. 1473. Pen and ink over a partially erased pencil sketch. Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy.
Madonna with the Carnation. c.1475. Oil on wood. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany. 
Madonna Benois. c. 1475-1478. Oil on canvas, transferred from panel. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. 
Portrait of Ginevra de'Benci. c.1478-1480. Oil and tempera on wood. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA. 
St. Hieronymus. c.1480-1482. Oil on wood. Vaticano, Pinacoteca Apostolica Vaticano, Rome. More.
Adoration of the Magi. 1481-1482. Oil on wood. Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy. More.
Madonna of the Rocks. 1482-1486. Oil on wood. Louvre, Paris, France. 
Battle Cart with Mobile Scythes. c. 1485. Pen and ink with wash on paper. Biblioteca Reale, Turin, Italy.
Drawing of a Flying Machine. c.1486. Pen and ink on paper. Bibliotheque de l'Institut de France, Paris, France.
Two Views of the Skull. 1489. Pen, ink over black chalk on paper. Windsor Castle, Windsor, UK.
Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani (Lady with an Ermine). c.1490. Oil on wood. Czartorychi Muzeum, Cracow, Poland. More. 
Portrait of a Young Man (Portrait of the Musician Franchino Guffurio?). c.1490. Oil on wood. Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy. 
Madonna Litta. c. 1490. Oil on panel, transferred to canvas. The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia. 
The Proportions of the Human Figure (Vitruvian Man). 1490. Pen, ink and watercolour over metalpoint. Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy. 
Head Measured, and Horsemen. c.1490 and 1504. Pen, ink and red chalk on paper. Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy.
Five Grotesque Heads. c.1490. Pen and ink on paper. Windsor Castle, Windsor, UK.
Portrait of an Unknown Woman (La Belle Ferroniere). c.1490. Oil on wood. Louvre, Paris, France.
Coition of Hemisected Man and Woman. c.1492. Pen and ink on paper. Windsor Castle, Windsor, UK.
The Last Supper. c.1495-1498. Oil and tempera on plaster. Santa Maria delle Grazie, Refectory, Milan, Italy. More.
Burlington House Cartoon (Mary, Christ, St. Anne and the Infant St. John). 1499 (?). Chalk on paper. National Gallery, London, UK. 
Grotesque Portrait Study of Man. c. 1500-1505. Black chalk on paper. Oxford, The Governing Body, Christ Church, UK.
Madonna of the Yarnwinder. 1501. Oil on wood. Private collection.
Bird's-Eye View of a Landscape. 1502. Pen, ink and watercolour on paper. Windsor Castle, Windsor, UK.
Virgin and Child with St. Anne. c.1502-1516. Oil on wood. Louvre, Paris, France. More.
Mona Lisa (La Gioconda). 1503-1506. Oil on wood. Louvre, Paris, France. More.
Copy of the Leda and the Swan by Leonardo. c.1505-1510. Oil on wood. Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House, Salisbury, UK. More.
The Virgin of the Rocks. 1506-1508. Oil on wood. National Gallery, London, UK.
>The Neck and Shoulder of a Man. c.1509-1510. Pen and ink on paper. Windsor Castle, Windsor, UK.
The Foetus in the Womb. c.1510-1512. Pen and ink with wash over black chalk and red chalk on paper. Windsor Castle, Windsor, UK.
Self-Portrait. 1512. Red chalk on paper. Biblioteka Reale, Turin, Italy. 
St. John the Baptist. c.1513-1516. Oil on wood. Louvre, Paris, France. More. 
John the Baptist (with the attributes of Bacchus). c. 1513-1516. Oil on canvas, transferred from panel. Louvre, Paris, France. More.
Copy of the Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo. 1550-1603. Black chalk and ink heightened with lead white, over-painted with watercolour. Louvre, Paris, France. More.

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