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Despite the recent awareness and admiration of Leonardo as a scientist
and inventor, for the better part of four hundred years his enormous
fame rested on his achievements as a painter and on a handful of works,
either authenticated or attributed to him that have been regarded as
among the supreme masterpieces ever created.
These paintings are famous for a variety of qualities which have been
much imitated by students and discussed at great length by connoisseurs
and critics. Among the qualities that make Leonardo's work unique are
the innovative techniques that he used in laying on the paint, his
detailed knowledge of anatomy, light, botany and geology, his interest
in physiognomy and the way in which humans register emotion in
expression and gesture, his innovative use of the human form in
figurative composition and his use of the subtle gradation of tone. All
these qualities come together in his most famous painted works, the Mona
Lisa, the Last Supper and the Virgin of the Rocks.
Important Works :
1472-1475 "The Baptism of Christ"
1478-1480 "The Benois Madonna"
1481 "Adoration of the Magi"
1483-1486 "The Madonna of the Rocks"
1488-1490 "Lady with an Ermine"
1490 "Portrait of a Musician"
1498 "Last Supper"
1499-1500 "The Virgin and Child with St. Anne and St. John the Baptist"
1503-1505/1507 "Mona Lisa or La Gioconda"
1508 "The Madonna of the Rocks or The Virgin of the Rocks"
1508 "Leda and the Swan"
1510 "The Virgin and Child with St. Anne"
1514 "St. John the Baptist"
1515 "Bacchus" (or St. John in the Wilderness)
1523 "The Sacrilege of Mary"
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Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (April 15, 1452 – May 2, 1519) was an
Italian polymath: scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor,
anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer.
Leonardo got his start as an artist around 1469, when his father
apprenticed him to the fabled workshop of Verocchio. Verocchio's
specialty was perspective, which artists had only recently begun to get
the hang of, and Leonardo quickly mastered its challenges. In fact,
Leonardo quickly surpassed Verocchio, and by the time he was in his
early twenties he was downright famous.
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