Leonardo da Vinci

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Florentine artist, one of the great masters of the High Renaissance, celebrated as a painter, sculptor, architect, engineer, and scientist. His profound love of knowledge and research was the keynote of both his artistic and scientific endeavors. His innovations in the field of painting influenced the course of Italian art for more than a century after his death, and his scientific studies-particularly in the fields of anatomy, optics, and hydraulics-anticipated many of the developments of modern science. He spent his last years at the Chateau de Cloux, near Amboise, where he died on May 2, 1519.





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Leonardo da Vinci Museum
This is one of the most popular and comprehensive websites on Leonardo: With many of his art works, oil paintings, drawings and etchings. You'll find in the East Wing: Oil paintings, including "Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper"; in the West Wing: Engineering and futuristic designs, including fantastic weapons, flying machines and water transport systems; in th North Wing: Drawings and sketches, including illustrations, anatomical sketches and unfinished works; and finally in the South Wing: Life and Times of Leonardo da Vinci, a historical exhibit.
 

VINCI - Leonardo Museum
The Leonardo Museum, located in Vinci, Italy, offers not only a biographical time line, photos from Vinci and historical information but a lot more. The museums features many models of Leonardo's machines: from military machines to building-construction machines, to instruments for scientific use. You'll find 18 of them in the first hall and 22 in the second, each presented and described with precise reference to Leonardo's drafts and notes.
 

Learning About Leonardo
Why is Mona Lisa smiling? Dr. Lillian Schwartz suggests that Leonardo painted himself, and was able to support her theory by analyzing the facial features of Leonardo's face and that of the famous painting. She digitized both the self-portrait of the artist and the Mona Lisa. She flipped the self portrait and merged the two images together using a computer: The features of the face aligned perfectly! This is shown here by means of a gif-animation, furthermore there are some links and original music.
 

Leonardo da Vinci
The Museum of Science here presents a film (quicktime) on a Leonardo exhibition. "Exploring Leonarde" presents several chapters, where you can learn about this fascinating scientist, inventor, and artist. Furthermore there is a multimedia zone with shockwave, film, and QTVR.
 

WebMuseum: Leonardo da Vinci
The Webmuseum offers biographical and art-historical information (for instance a text on High Renaissance) and 15 images, including "Mona Lisa"
Here are all mirror sites of the WebMuseum.
 

CJFA- Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo at Carol Jackson's Fine Art Gallery, offering two galleries with 25 paintings, and a more detailed biography (from Ms Encarta)
 

Leonardo da Vinci Drawings
16 drawings by Leonardo (you can download all of them in a single file - format (UNIX tar), furthermore some links
 

Leonardo da Vinci e Legnano
A site in Italian language, with essays by Proff. Augusto Marinoni, dealing with Leonardo's inventions and drawings (bicycle, car), including some images
 

Leonardos birthplace - Menue Eisenerz
A site offering photos from Leonardos birthplays in Italy and the French town, where he died. Furthermore there are some links to Leonardo sites.
 

Leonardo The Anatomist
An essay on Leonardos's anatomical drawings, no images
 



Bicycle

Bicycle, drawing and reconstruction, images from: VINCI - Leonardo Museum


 

Leonardo Da Vinci by Le Cagot
one page on Leonardo, with 8 images and short biographical information
 

Uffizi - Leonardo da Vinci Room
8 paintings in the famous Uffici, in Florence/Italy, are presented here, with explanatory art-historical and biographical essays
 

Messe Wien - Leonardo Da Vinci
The site presents more than 20 articles in German language on different aspects of Leonardo (art-historical, technical, artistic...), unfortunately there are no images
 

Leonardo On-Line
A very extensive scientific and art-historical website, with many articles, but only a few deal with Leonardo himself
 

AMNH: Leonardo's Codex Leicester
A web site presented by The American Museum of Natural History, including many images and background information: an exhibition of the only manuscript by Leonardo da Vinci, still in private hands and the only one in America. The presentation offers an in-depth view of the scientific thinking of one of the greatest geniuses in the history of the western world. The Codex Leicester, written between 1506 and 1510.
 

FAMSF-Imagebase: Leonardo da Vinci
The search engine of the Fine Art Museum of San Francisco offers some paintings of Leonardo (by contemporary artists) and some paintings by himself
 

Mark Harden's Artchive: Leonardo da Vinci
10 paintings and drawings are to be found here
 



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