Leonardo da Vinci: Media

Italian artist, engineer, and scientist

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Explore the life of Italian painter, architect, engineer, and humanist Leonardo da Vinci
This video examines the life and works of the Renaissance artist and inventor Leonardo...
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Leonardo da Vinci: More than just an artist
Overview of Leonardo da Vinci.
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Unraveling the mystery behind the Mona Lisa
Overview of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, with a discussion of the sitter's...
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Examine efforts to identify the subject of Leonardo's Mona Lisa
Learn about efforts to identify the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's painting Mona...
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See how Renaissance man Leonardo da Vinci learned from Andrea del Verrocchio of the earlier Florentine school
Leonardo's apprenticeship to Verrocchio.
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Leonardo da Vinci
Explore the life of Leonardo da Vinci.
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Images

Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Self-portrait, drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1490/1515–16; in the Royal Library,...
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Leonardo da Vinci: Lady with an Ermine
Lady with an Ermine, oil on panel by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1489–91; in the...
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Leonardo da Vinci
Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1953, 53.600.3177, www.metmuseum.org
Leonardo da Vinci: Head of a Woman
Head of a Woman (also called La Scapigliata), oil, earth, and white...
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Leonardo da Vinci: Ginevra de' Benci
Ginevra de' Benci, oil on panel by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1474/78; in the...
Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund; accession no. 1967.6.1.a)
Leonardo da Vinci: Adoration of the Magi (San Donato in Scopeto)
Adoration of the Magi (San Donato in Scopeto), drawing in charcoal, watercolour...
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Leonardo da Vinci: Adoration of the Magi
Linear perspective study for the Adoration of the Magi, silverpoint, pen,...
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Leonardo da Vinci: The Virgin of the Rocks
The Virgin of the Rocks, oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci, 1483–86; in...
Giraudon/Art Resource, New York
Leonardo da Vinci: Last Supper
Last Supper, wall painting by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1495–98, after its 1999...
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Leonardo da Vinci: Last Supper
Last Supper, wall painting by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1495–98, before the...
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Leonardo da Vinci: The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, oil on wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci,...
Photograph, courtesy of Giraudon—Art Resource, New York
Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa, oil on wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503–19; in the Louvre,...
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Leonardo da Vinci: Salvator Mundi
Salvator Mundi, oil on walnut panel believed to have been painted by Leonardo...
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Leonardo da Vinci: pen-and-ink studies of human fetus
Human fetus, pen-and-ink studies by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1510.
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Leonardo da Vinci: sepia drawing of a nude man
Study of a nude man, sepia drawing by Leonardo da Vinci; in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana,...
Courtesy of Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Leonardo da Vinci: Vitruvian Man
Vitruvian Man, drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1490; in the Galleries of...
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Leonardo da Vinci: screw-cutting machine
Screw-cutting machine, drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500; in the Bibliothèque...
Courtesy of the Bibliothèque de l'Institut de France, Paris; photograph, The Science Museum, London
Leonardo da Vinci: operation of a mechanical wing
Reproduction of a page from the notebook of Leonardo da Vinci showing the operation...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (file no. LC-USZ62-110330)
Leonardo da Vinci: ornithopter
Leonardo da Vinci's plans for an ornithopter, a flying machine kept aloft by the...
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Leonardo da Vinci
A self-portrait by Leonardo da Vinci shows how he looked in 1512. The chalk drawing...
Alinari/Art Resource, New York
Leonardo da Vinci:The bust of a man, and the head of a lion
The bust of a man, and the head of a lion, red and white chalk on orange-red...
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Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa, oil on wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503–19; in the Louvre,...
Scala/Art Resource, New York
Vitruvian man, a figure study by Leonardo da Vinci (c. 1509) illustrating...
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linear pattern in Leonardo da Vinci's Virgin and Child with St. Anne
The interwoven linear pattern of Leonardo da Vinci's panel painting Virgin and...
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Leonardo da Vinci: The Virgin of the Rocks
The Virgin of the Rocks, oil on wood by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1491/2–99...
The Picture Art Collection/Alamy
Leonardo da Vinci: self-portrait
Self-portrait, drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1490/1515–16; in the Royal...
Alinari/Art Resource, New York
Leonardo da Vinci: The Virgin of the Rocks
The Virgin of the Rocks, oil painting by Leonardo da Vinci, 1483–86; in...
Giraudon/Art Resource, New York
Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa, oil on wood panel by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503–19;...
Scala/Art Resource, New York
Leonardo da Vinci: Vitruvian Man
Vitruvian Man, drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1490; in the Gallerie...
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Leonardo da Vinci: Last Supper
Last Supper, wall painting by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1495–98, before...
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aviation: airplane
Although the airplane was not invented until the early 20th century, Leonardo da...
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