The 5 most important works of Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Florentine artist and one of the great masters of the Renaissance, famous as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist. His deep love for knowledge and research was the key to both his artistic and scientific behavior. His innovations in the field of painting determined the evolution of Italian art for more than a century after his death; his scientific investigations — especially in the areas of anatomy, optics, and hydraulics — anticipated many of the advances in modern science.
" Mona Lisa "
Date: 1503 - 1519
Dimensions: 77 x 53 cm
Style: High Renaissance
Genre: portrait
Location: Louvre Museum
The renowned work of Leonardo Da Vinci called the Mona Lisa is in the Louvre museum in Paris, this is a half-length portrait of a young Florentine lady. He has an enigmatic smile and is in a relaxed posture, with his hands folded on the arm of the chair, facing a damp and distant landscape. It is one of Leonardo's richest and most mysterious background landscapes, on paths that get lost on their own.
" The Last dinner"
Date: 1495; Milan, Italy
Dimensions: 460 x 880 cm
Style: High Renaissance
Genre: religious painting
Medium: plaster , tempera paint
Location: Santa Maria delle Grazie
The Last Supper is an original wall painting by Leonardo da Vinci executed between 1495 and 1497 , it is found on the wall on which it was originally painted, in the refectory of the Dominican convent of Santa María de las Gracias in Milan ( Italy ). [] The painting was made for his patron, Duke Ludovico Sforza of Milan . It is not a traditional fresco , but a mural executed in tempera and oil on two layers of plaster preparation spread over plaster. It measures 460 cm. high by 880 cm. Wide.
"The lady with an ermine"
Date: 1489-1490; Milan
Dimensions: 40.3 x 54.8
Style: High Renaissance
Genre: portrait
Medium: oil, panel
Location: Czartoryski Museum
This work called "the Lady with the Ermine" is the work of the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci who is framed within a second golden age of the Renaissance, a period called Cinquecento. This work has characteristics of this period such as p. eg: the line, the drawing loses strength, to the detriment of the color, and the contours lack the definition they had in the Quattrocento. Small details and secondary elements are reduced. It is closely related to one of Leonardo's main works, which is none other than "La Gioconda". In both works the artist uses the sfumato technique, that is, the contours are not evident, which are achieved through the play of light and shadow.
"Madonna and the Child"
Date: c.1490; Italy
Dimensions: 33 x 42 cm
Style: High Renaissance
Genre: religious painting
Medium: canvas, tempera paint
Location: Hermitage Museum
"Baptism of Christ"
Date: c.1475; Italy
Dimensions: 151 x 177 cm
Style: Low Renaissance
Genre: religious painting
Medium: oil, panel, tempera paint
Location: Uffizi Gallery
