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, about life sized. Da Vinci captured the moment when Jesus told his disciples that one would betray him. The seemingly feminine looking gentleman is John, …
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 for a long period of time, but turned up in 1909 in Russia. It sits at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. About the artist: …
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. St. Jerome in the Wilderness is still unfinished and is now in the Vatican Museums, Rome.
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 pointing to heaven, illustrating the point that he was the sign that The Savior, Jesus was here.
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 been involved in the painting. In the early 1480s, Andrea resolved never to touch the brush again because his student, Leonardo, had far surpassed him. …
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. Each figure in the portrait is looking with love and comfort at each other. A cleaning of the painting in 2011 was controversial in that …
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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 The Louvre in Paris and the other in the National Gallery, London. The painting features Mary, Jesus, his cousin John the Baptists and the angel …
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 Vinci such a fantastic artist was his understanding of human anatomy. His notes for The Vitruvian Man included: a palm is four fingers. a …
Leonardo’s The Adoration of the Magi (1481) was commissioned by the Augustinian monks of San Donato a Scopeto in Florence. He left the 97×96 inch painting unfinished. About the artist: Artist, Scientist and Inventor, Leonardo has been described as the archetype of the Renaissance Man.
