Tag: landscape

San Giovanni nel deserto (1517-1520)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) & Workshop San Giovanni nel deserto, Bacco (St John in the Wilderness, Bacchus) c.1517–1520 Oil on wood transferred to canvas, 177 x 115 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris We do not know the circumstances of the creation of…

Vergine delle rocce (c.1508)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Vergine delle rocce (Virgin of the Rocks) c.1491–1499 and 1506–1508 Oil on poplar, thinned and cradled, 189.5 x 120 cm National Gallery, London Full title: The Virgin with the Infant Saint John the Baptist adoring the Christ Child…

L’Ultima Cena (1494-1498)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) L’Ultima Cena (The Last Supper) 1494–1498 Dry wall-painting, 460 x 880 cm Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milano Leonardo did not use the traditional fresco technique to paint the Last Supper and the lunettes. He chose a method that…

Vergine delle rocce (c.1483-1486)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Vergine delle rocce (The Virgin of the Rocks) c.1483–1486 Oil on wood transferred to canvas 199.5 x 122 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris This painting is mentioned for the first time in 1625 at the Château de Fontainebleau.…

San Girolamo (c.1482)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) San Girolamo (St. Jerome) c.1482 Oil on panel, 103 x 74 cm Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vaticano No information is available as to the destination of the painting and who it was commissioned by. Still in the sketch state it…

Ritratto di Ginevra de’ Benci (c.1474-1478)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Ritratto di Ginevra de’ Benci (Portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci) c.1474–1478 Oil on panel 38.1 x 37 cm National Gallery of Art, Washington This square portrait shows the head and shoulders of a young woman in front…

Adorazione dei Magi (c.1482)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Adorazione dei Magi (Adoration of the Magi) c.1482 Drawing in charcoal, watercolour ink and oil on wood, 244 x 240 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze A document from July 1481 states that Leonardo da Vinci had received a…

Annunciazione (c.1472)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Annunciazione (Annunciation) c.1472 Oil on panel, 90 x 222 cm Galleria degli Uffizi, Firenze A flourishing enclosed garden, in front of a Renaissance palace, evokes the hortus conclusus that alludes to the purity of Mary. Archangel Gabriel…

Madonna Litta (mid-1490s)

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) Madonna Litta mid 1490s Tempera on canvas (handed over from panel), 42 x 33 cm Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg This painting would seem to have been produced in Milan, where the artist moved in 1482. It was one…