Friday, June 25, 2010

The Famous People Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci
Birth name: Leonardo di Ser Piero

Born:
April 15, 1452 Vinci, Florence, in present-day Italy

Died:
May 2, 1519 (aged 67) Amboise, Touraine (in present-day Indre-et-Loire, France)

Nationality:
Italian

Field:
Many and diverse fields of arts and sciences

Movement:
High Renaissance

Works:
Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, The Vitruvian Man
In spite of the current awareness and approbation of Famous Celebrity Leonardo as a scientist and discoverer, for the better part of four hundred years his mammoth fame rested on his achievements as a painter and on a handful of works, either authenticated to him that have been regarded as among the superlative masterpieces ever created.

List of paintings:
Annunciation: (1475-1480) Uffizi, Florence, Italy

Ginevra de' Benci:
(~1475) National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, U.S.

The Benois Madonna:
(1478-1480) Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

The Virgin with Flowers:
(1478-1481) Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Adoration of the Magi :
(1481) Uffizi, Florence, Italy

Cecilia Gallerani with an Ermine:
(1488-90) Czartoryski Museum, Krakow, Poland

A Musician:
(~1490), Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy

Madonna Litta:
(1490-91) The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia

La Belle Ferronière:
(1495-1498) Louvre, Paris, France

Last Supper:
(1498) Convent of Sta. Maria delle Grazie, Milan, Italy

The Madonna of the Rocks:
(1483-86) Louvre, Paris, France

The Virgin of the Rocks:
(1508) National Gallery, London, England

Leda and the Swan:
(1508) Galleria Borghese, Rome, Italy

Mona Lisa or La Gioconda Louvre
, Paris, France

The Virgin and Child with St. Anne:
(~1510) Louvre, Paris, France

St. John the Baptist:
(~1514) Louvre, Paris, France

Bacchus:
(1515) Louvre, Paris, France
In the arts some are all very famous paintings such as Bacchus, Madonna Litta and
Mona Lisa.
Madona Litta
Mon Lisa
Bacchus
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