500 years ago, Leonardo died da Vinci, the universal genius from Tuscany. A man who was an artist and a scientist, and in spite of humble origin with the most powerful men of the Renaissance wrong.
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Da Vinci’s Masterpieces
Mona Lisa
The most famous paintings of Leonardo da Vinci from the high phase of the Italian Renaissance, hangs in the Louvre in Paris. The year of its completion is unclear, as is the true identity of the Lisa: The Florentinerin Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of cloth and silk merchant Francesco di Bartolomeo di Zanobi del Giocondo, is regarded as the hot candidate – many art historians doubt that.
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Da Vinci’s Masterpieces
Salvator Mundi
For the record sum of $ 450 million in 2017, Leonardo da Vinci’s work at the auction house Christie’s auction for the saudi Arabian crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. About 1500 originated, it is one of the less than 20 surviving paintings by the master. In 1958, the factory had changed for only $ 60 to the owner – in the Belief that it was not an Original. The authenticity is still controversial.
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Da Vinci’s Masterpieces
John the Baptist
John the Baptist, recognizes Jesus in the New Testament as the Messiah and his forerunner, also in the Louvre. His joy is an expression of his knowledge. Leonardo stood between 1513 and 1515 in the services of the Vatican, probably Pope Leo x gave him the order for the image to da Vinci’s last Painting could be.
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Da Vinci’s Masterpieces
The Lord’s Supper
Not the Mona Lisa, but the Lord’s supper on the North wall of the dining hall of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, is considered the culmination of the creative work of Leonardo da Vinci’s. It has been restored, because the applied secco painting from the end of the 15. Century is in comparison to the damp plaster painted frescoes less durable. The sacrament is a world heritage site.
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Da Vinci’s Masterpieces
Madonna with the spindle
The Original image is not preserved, however, there are two copies, derived from Leonardo’s pupils: A picture is part of a New York private collection, the other was stolen in 2003 from Scotland’s Drumlanrig Castle. In 2007, it emerged during a RAID, today it hangs in the Scottish national gallery. Although it is not an Original, was its value at the time of 40 million euros.
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Da Vinci’s Masterpieces
Self-portrait
In the case of 500-year-old works of art, doubts as to the authenticity include: self-portrait, in the possession of the Royal library in Turin, neither the authorship nor the identity of the depicted Person. The year of creation of the sanguine could be, according to experts, far behind da Vinci’s death. Whether the master would probably be laughing about all the discussions?
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Da Vinci’s Masterpieces
Air screw
Finally, the universal genius made less from painting than from other Sciences: To designed architecture, biology, engineering, and anatomy, da Vinci sketches, his research, his energy should have been the urge is sometimes in the way. The shown here is a sketch of a flying machine, the Helix Pteron, a forerunner of the helicopter. For the implementation of the materials were missing him.
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Da Vinci’s Masterpieces
The Vitruvian man
His inventive spirit is probably one of the reasons why there are so few paintings by da Vinci: He came so often to Paint. This sketch is based on the representation of the ancient architect Vitruvius from the man with idealized proportions. He is regarded as a Symbol for symmetry, beauty, and body awareness, and most of the German carry it with them every day – on your health insurance card.
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Da Vinci’s Masterpieces
Mona Lisa
The most famous paintings of Leonardo da Vinci from the high phase of the Italian Renaissance, hangs in the Louvre in Paris. The year of its completion is unclear, as is the true identity of the Lisa: The Florentinerin Lisa del Giocondo, the wife of cloth and silk merchant Francesco di Bartolomeo di Zanobi del Giocondo, is regarded as the hot candidate – many art historians doubt that.
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Da Vinci’s Masterpieces
Salvator Mundi
For the record sum of $ 450 million in 2017, Leonardo da Vinci’s work at the auction house Christie’s auction for the saudi Arabian crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. About 1500 originated, it is one of the less than 20 surviving paintings by the master. In 1958, the factory had changed for only $ 60 to the owner – in the Belief that it was not an Original. The authenticity is still controversial.
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Da Vinci’s Masterpieces
John the Baptist
John the Baptist, recognizes Jesus in the New Testament as the Messiah and his forerunner, also in the Louvre. His joy is an expression of his knowledge. Leonardo stood between 1513 and 1515 in the services of the Vatican, probably Pope Leo x gave him the order for the image to da Vinci’s last Painting could be.
-
Da Vinci’s Masterpieces
The Lord’s Supper
Not the Mona Lisa, but the Lord’s supper on the North wall of the dining hall of the Dominican convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, is considered the culmination of the creative work of Leonardo da Vinci’s. It has been restored, because the applied secco painting from the end of the 15. Century is in comparison to the damp plaster painted frescoes less durable. The sacrament is a world heritage site.
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Da Vinci’s Masterpieces
Madonna with the spindle
The Original image is not preserved, however, there are two copies, derived from Leonardo’s pupils: A picture is part of a New York private collection, the other was stolen in 2003 from Scotland’s Drumlanrig Castle. In 2007, it emerged during a RAID, today it hangs in the Scottish national gallery. Although it is not an Original, was its value at the time of 40 million euros.
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Da Vinci’s Masterpieces
Self-portrait
In the case of 500-year-old works of art, doubts as to the authenticity include: self-portrait, in the possession of the Royal library in Turin, neither the authorship nor the identity of the depicted Person. The year of creation of the sanguine could be, according to experts, far behind da Vinci’s death. Whether the master would probably be laughing about all the discussions?
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Da Vinci’s Masterpieces
Air screw
Finally, the universal genius made less from painting than from other Sciences: To designed architecture, biology, engineering, and anatomy, da Vinci sketches, his research, his energy should have been the urge is sometimes in the way. The shown here is a sketch of a flying machine, the Helix Pteron, a forerunner of the helicopter. For the implementation of the materials were missing him.
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Da Vinci’s Masterpieces
The Vitruvian man
His inventive spirit is probably one of the reasons why there are so few paintings by da Vinci: He came so often to Paint. This sketch is based on the representation of the ancient architect Vitruvius from the man with idealized proportions. He is regarded as a Symbol for symmetry, beauty, and body awareness, and most of the German carry it with them every day – on your health insurance card.
Science and art were for Leonardo da Vinci. Actually, it all belonged together for him. He was curious, wanted to understand the world and left his scientific findings into his art. Even as a child, he sat with a book in front of the door, watching the clouds, and recorded what he saw. As an adult, he dissected corpses secretly, in order to expand his Knowledge of physique, muscles, joints and proportions.
From the province to the vibrant Florence
Was born Leonardo, on 15. April 1452 in Anchiano, a Hamlet of the municipality of Vinci in Tuscany. His parents, a notary public, and a 16-year-old maid, were not married. Leonardo grew up, therefore, in the case of his grandfather and signed. He managed, as an apprentice in the workshop of the famous sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio. This completed the orders for the Medici, a merchant and banker family, which controlled Florence through the centuries with their Power and their money.
Whether it Vinci, this portrait from 1512 to Leonardo is controversial
A Revolution in portrait painting
Leonardo da Vinci, received in the higher circles, and was a Guild member of the Luke, the Florentine artists ‘ Association. He painted in the peace and quiet of portraits and Madonnas images. Some of the pictures he kept for decades in his workshop, and revised it again and again – the most famous image, the for years, traveled with him, is the world-famous “Mona Lisa”, a portrait that can be seen today in the Louvre in Paris.
Whether dreamy three-looking or self-confident-clarified that women had it done to him – but only on the canvas. Privately, he was interested in men. Against the conventions he was also with his portrait painting. To paint instead of the ladies, as usual, in profile, look in da Vinci’s paintings the viewer.
Findings in mirror writing
But Leonardo is to reduce the da Vinci only on his painting, did not do him justice. For one, he left so many paintings. Only a dozen are attributed to him today for sure. On the other, much more anatomy do exist studies and sketches, in mirror writing-written texts and blueprints, do not even have an artistic Background, such as designs for tanks, planes or scuba gear. He built bridges and designed a whole city. Most of his ideas, however, were never realized.
Anatomy study by Leonardo da Vinci from the 15. Century
Florence, Milan and Rome – the capitals of the Renaissance were the sites of its action. There he found the Client, large families, or the Pope. In 1516, French king Francis I invited him, paid him well and gave him all the freedom to devote himself to his projects. Among his duties there, rush to organize the end of the magnificent feasts. On 2. May 1519 died the universal genius in the Château of Clos Lucé – according to the legend, in the arms of the French king.
Numerous exhibitions in Europe take life this year, and work of Leonardo da Vinci. The Louvre in Paris in the autumn, a retrospective. The British Royal Collection presented by the 1. February to 6. May, many of the drawings of the artist in various locations, including Belfast, Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester. 24. May to 13. October will be issued 200 drawings at Buckingham Palace in London.