• Thumbnail for Leonardo da Vinci
    Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer...
    137 KB (14,837 words) - 00:21, 15 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Science and inventions of Leonardo da Vinci
    Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was an Italian polymath, regarded as the epitome of the "Renaissance Man", displaying skills in numerous diverse areas of...
    61 KB (8,123 words) - 05:39, 28 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Benois Madonna
    Italian Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg. One of two Madonnas begun by Leonardo in October 1478, it was completed...
    11 KB (1,176 words) - 06:28, 25 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci
    Leonardo da Vinci was the last of three Conte di Cavour-class dreadnoughts built for the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) in the early 1910s. Completed...
    14 KB (1,500 words) - 20:40, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mona Lisa
    Mona Lisa (category Paintings by Leonardo da Vinci)
    [la ʒɔkɔ̃d]) is a half-length portrait painting by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. Considered an archetypal masterpiece of the Italian Renaissance,...
    104 KB (10,410 words) - 15:29, 12 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Isleworth Mona Lisa
    Isleworth Mona Lisa (category Works attributed to Leonardo da Vinci)
    16th-century oil on canvas painting depicting the same subject as Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, though with the subject (Lisa del Giocondo) depicted as...
    62 KB (7,775 words) - 15:47, 15 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of most expensive paintings
    approximately US$450.3 million (which includes commission), paid for Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi (c. 1500). The painting was sold in November 2017...
    110 KB (5,030 words) - 18:46, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Two–Mona Lisa theory
    theory proposed by various historians, art experts, and others that Leonardo da Vinci painted two versions of the Mona Lisa. Several of these experts have...
    35 KB (4,046 words) - 00:23, 16 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right
    The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right (category Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci)
    pierre noir pencil and red chalk, attributed to the Florentine painter Leonardo da Vinci and kept at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This drawing...
    28 KB (3,081 words) - 12:03, 23 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations
    Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is one of the most recognizable and famous works of art in the world, and also one of the most replicated and reinterpreted...
    43 KB (4,248 words) - 11:01, 3 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Portrait of a Musician
    Portrait of a Musician (category Paintings by Leonardo da Vinci)
    painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1483–1487. Produced while Leonardo was in Milan, the work is painted in oils...
    51 KB (5,507 words) - 23:16, 29 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bernardino de' Conti
    Bernardino de' Conti (category Pupils and followers of Leonardo da Vinci)
    since little is known about his life past 1522. A close apprentice to Leonardo da Vinci, he is best known for his oil portraits and to a lesser extent, religious...
    10 KB (913 words) - 16:43, 27 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Château de Chambord
    the château is attributed to the Tuscan architect Domenico da Cortona; Leonardo da Vinci may have also influenced the design. Chambord was altered considerably...
    31 KB (3,241 words) - 05:52, 26 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rearing Horse and Mounted Warrior
    Rearing Horse and Mounted Warrior (category Works attributed to Leonardo da Vinci)
    Mounted Warrior or Budapest horse is a bronze sculpture attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. Depicting Francis I of France on a destrier horse, it is estimated...
    30 KB (3,203 words) - 02:59, 23 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Horse and Rider (wax sculpture)
    unknown before the 20th century. The work has been attributed to Leonardo da Vinci by the Italian art historian Carlo Pedretti, though most other art...
    32 KB (3,342 words) - 20:47, 19 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Swan song
    his deth that singeth [the jealous swan, that sings at his death]". Leonardo da Vinci also mentioned the legend in his notebooks: "The swan is white without...
    18 KB (1,754 words) - 19:08, 25 December 2024
  • The Da Vinci, ex-Seidel Stradivarius is a violin made by Antonio Stradivari of Cremona, Italy in 1714. The violin was owned until 1880 by Arthur Foucques...
    6 KB (651 words) - 16:37, 30 October 2022
  • Thumbnail for Marco d'Oggiono
    c. 1549) was an Italian Renaissance painter and a chief pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, many of whose works he copied. Wikimedia Commons has media related...
    4 KB (440 words) - 15:14, 3 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Italian Renaissance painting
    Ghirlandaio, and Giovanni Bellini. The High Renaissance period was that of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Andrea del Sarto, Coreggio, Giorgione, the...
    87 KB (10,366 words) - 22:52, 31 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Young River God with Three Putti
    Bernini, but by 1928 it was securely attributed to Pierino da Vinci, the nephew of Leonardo da Vinci, based on a description of the work by Giorgio Vasari...
    3 KB (320 words) - 17:12, 28 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Bertram Freeman-Mitford, 1st Baron Redesdale
    ISBN 978-1-4021-5459-1. Chamberlain, Houston Stewart (1914). Immanuel Kant: A Study and a Comparison with Goethe, Leonardo Da Vinci, Bruno, Plato and Descartes. John Lane...
    15 KB (1,537 words) - 00:36, 14 December 2024
  • 2008-06-30 Sandro Ligugnana - Alessandro Ligugnana History - Officine Leonardo da Vinci. Last accessed 2009-09-09 The New York Times Magazine. 13 January...
    6 KB (562 words) - 08:55, 17 September 2023
  • on Psycho-Analysis 1910 Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood (German: Eine Kindheitserinnerung des Leonardo da Vinci) 1910 The Antithetical Meaning...
    10 KB (1,394 words) - 01:45, 27 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of gravitational theory
    Advent. Retrieved 10 July 2019. Da Vinci, Leonardo (1971). Taylor, Pamela (ed.). The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. New American Library. pp. 136–138...
    88 KB (10,802 words) - 05:59, 24 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Florentine painting
    became a source of inspiration to many later painters, including Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo. During the first half of the 15th century, the achieving...
    42 KB (5,157 words) - 19:28, 16 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for High Renaissance
    painting, sculpture and architecture of the High Renaissance include Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, and Bramante. In the 21st century, the use...
    15 KB (1,846 words) - 11:47, 10 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Forte di San Leo
    handful of houses scattered around. It played a large part in the 1991-film Hudson Hawk as the fictional castle of Leonardo da Vinci. Official website...
    5 KB (568 words) - 13:49, 1 July 2024
  • gallery for his extensive art collection. Colville held works by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael and Fra Bartolomeo as well as a large collection of Near...
    8 KB (881 words) - 23:41, 15 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Annunciation in Christian art
    art. Works on the subject have been created by Sandro Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci, Caravaggio, Duccio di Buoninsegna, Jan van Eyck, Murillo, and thousands...
    10 KB (1,138 words) - 17:36, 13 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for De architectura
    adapted in the famous drawing Homo Vitruvianus ("Vitruvian Man") by Leonardo da Vinci. While Vitruvius is fulsome in his descriptions of religious buildings...
    29 KB (3,584 words) - 03:30, 12 December 2024