Vigo the Carpathian in Ghostbusters II
Vigo the Carpathian (originally known as Vigo Von Homburg Deutschendorf, played by Wilhelm von Homburg) was a powerful seventeenth-century tyrant and magician trapped in a painting in the gallery at...
Head of a Woman by Leonardo da Vinci
Head of a Woman (circa 1500) by Leonardo da Vinci. The unfinished painting was used in the 1998 film, Ever After as a cross-over with Cinderella (Drew Barrymore) and Leonardo/Prince...
The Madonna of the Carnation by Leonardo da Vinci
The Madonna of the Carnation (Madonna with Vase or Madonna with Child) is on display at the Alte Pinakothek gallery in Munich, Germany. The painting was created in 1478/9, possibly...
Leonardo Da Vinci's La belle ferronnière
Da Vinci's La belle ferronnière is also called Portrait of an Unknown Woman. A ferronnière is basically an iron merchant, the retail aspect of a blacksmith. Leonardo only painted four...
Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci
The Mona Lisa is the most well-known painting in the world. Lisa del Giocondo was a member of the Gherardini family of Florence and Tuscany, and the wife of wealthy...
Portrait of a Musician by Leonardo da Vinci
Portrait of a Musician was painted around 1490, and has had a lot of (not so good) restoration. The tunic, hair and hat seem to be done by a completely...
Salvator Mundi by Leonardo da Vinci
Salvator Mundi shows Jesus Christ giving a blessing with his right hand, and a sphere in his left. It was only recently (2011) rediscovered and authenticated. Before that, the beat...
Ginevra de’ Benci by Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo painted a portrait of 16 year-old Ginevra de’ Benci for her wedding in 1474, and most experts believe this is it. BUT some say that it is not the...
Lady with an Ermine by Leonardo da Vinci
Lady with an Ermine is a painting by Leonardo da Vinci from around 1489/90. The subject of the portrait is identified as Cecilia Gallerani, and probably was painted at a time...
The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo's The Last Supper is one of the most recognized paintings of all time, and biiger than most people think - it is 28 feet wide and 15 feet tall,...
Benois Madonna by Leonardo da Vinci
Madonna and Child with Flowers, otherwise known as the Benois Madonna, was one of the first works completed by da Vinci after graduating under Verrocchio's wing. It was considered lost...
Saint Jerome in the Wilderness by Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo's Saint Jerome in the Wilderness show the hermit/saint in the desert of Syria. Jerome is best known for befriending a lion after taking a thorn out of it's paw....
Saint John The Baptist by Leonardo da Vinci
Saint John The Baptist was probably Leonardo's last work. John is shown wearing pelts,wild curly hair and has a truly happy smile. He was viewed as a bit crazy. He's...
The Baptism of Christ by Leonardo da Vinci
The Baptism of Christ is a painting finished around 1475 in the studio of Andrea del Verrocchio and his pupil Leonardo da Vinci. Some historians say other students may have...
Leonardo da Vinci – The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne features baby Jesus playing with a lamb, while His mother, Mary, reaches out to Him while sitting on her mother's (St. Anne) lap....
The Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci
The Virgin of the Rocks (The Madonna of the Rocks) is the name used for two paintings by Leonardo da Vinci. The version generally considered the first version hangs in...
Vitruvian Man by Leonardo da Vinci
The Vitruvian Man is a drawing created by Leonardo da Vinci circa 1490.(also called the Canon of Proportions or Proportions of Man). One of the things that made Leonardo da...
Leonardo da Vinci – Adoration of the Magi
Leonardo's The Adoration of the Magi (1481) was commissioned by the Augustinian monks of San Donato a Scopeto in Florence. He left the 97x96 inch painting unfinished. About the artist:...
Leonardo Da Vinci Self Portrait
The red chalk on paper self portrait of Leonardo da Vinci that is most commonly known as The Master himself (at age 60) may not be him at all. Some...
Michelangelo's Pieta
Michelangelo's Pieta In 1497, the French ambassador, Cardinal Jean de Bilhères-Lagraulas, commissioned him to carve the famous Pietà, showing the Virgin Mary grieving over the body of her son, Jesus....
Renaissance Artist Michelangelo – Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle
Michelangelo In 1488, young Michelangelo was apprenticed to Ghirlandaio, who was coincidentally called upon to do interior art for the Sistine Chapel. He returned to Rome from Florence in 1505,...
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (March 6, 1475 - February 18, 1564) Nickname: 'Il Divino' (the divine one)
Michelangelo's Last Judgement
Michelangelo's Last JudgementMichelangelo's mammoth (nearly 45 by 40 feet) painting 'Last Judgement.' The Last Judgment is painted on the Sistine Chapel altar wall in Rome. Michelangelo wrote over three hundred...
Michelangelo's David
Michelangelo's DavidMichelangelo's 'David' statue is probably the most famous nude man of all time. Few of Michelangelo's sketches exist, once completed, he often destroyed his designs.The 'uncensored version of David...
Adam and Eve by Michelangelo
Adam and Eve by MichelangeloMuch of Michelangelo's work in the Sistine Chapel was based on Old Testament Bible stories.Michelangelo wrote over three hundred poems, sonnets and madrigals. 'Vittoria Colonna*' by:...
The Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo
The Sistine Chapel by Michelangelo The Sistine Chapel took approximately four years to complete (1508–1512), the entire ceiling was painted while on his back.Some of the nudity within his artwork...
The Battle of Cascina by Michelangelo
The Battle of Cascina by MichelangeloAristotele da Sangallo's drawing of Michelangelo's work is all that remains of 'The Battle of Cascina' (fought on July 28, 1364 between the troops of...
Genesis (Creation of Adam) by Michelangelo Buonarroti
Genesis (Creation of Adam) by Michelangelo BuonarrotiGenesis on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in Rome. The 500 square foot art includes nine stories from The Bible, Adam and Eve,...
Leonardo da Vinci – The Madonna Litta
Leonardo's The Madonna Litta (1490) features Mary nursing the infant Jesus and is displayed in the Hermitage Museum, in Saint Petersburg, Russia. It was featured in the film, The Da...
Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel (Brueghel) the Elder
Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel (Brueghel) the Elder There were actually three painted, the first,a miniature, was painted on ivory, and was lost, the remaining two (below) were completed...