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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