La belle ferronnière is a name given to a portrait in The Louvre of a woman, usually attributed to Leonardo da Vinci. It is also known as Portrait of an Unknown Woman. The tale is a romantic legend of revenge in which the aggrieved husband intentionally infects himself with syphilis, which he ...
Portrait of a Musician is an oil on wood painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci by some scholars. The man in the painting was at one time thought to be Franchino Gaffurio. The piece of paper he holds is at least one part of a musical score; it has notes written on it. The painting was greatly ...
Codex on the Flight of Birds is a relatively short codex of circa by Leonardo da Vinci. It comprises 18 folios and measures. Now held at the Biblioteca Reale in Turin, Italy, the codex begins with an examination of the flight behavior of birds and proposes mechanisms for flight by machines. ...
Horse and Rider is a beeswax sculpture depicting a rider on a horse created by Leonardo da Vinci. It was intended to be used as a model for a larger commissioned sculpture, but he died before the model was cast in metal. It is the only surviving example of his sculptural work. The sculpture is ...
The Battle of Anghiari is a currently lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci, at times referred to as The Lost Leonardo, which some commentators believe to be still hidden beneath one of the later frescoes in the Salone dei Cinquecento in the Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Its central scene depicted four ...
St. John the Baptist is an oil painting on walnut wood by Leonardo da Vinci. The original size of the work was 69x57 cm. It is now exhibited at the Musée du Louvre in Paris, France. The piece depicts St. John the Baptist in isolation. St. John is dressed in pelts, has long curly hair, and is ...
Salvator Mundi is a painting of Christ as Salvator Mundi recently attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, who is known to have painted the subject. It was lost and later rediscovered, and restored and exhibited. The painting shows Christ, in Renaissance garb, giving a benediction with his raised right ...
The Mona Lisa is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. The painting, thought to be a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, is in oil on a white Lombardy poplarpanel.The ambiguity of the subject's expression, which is frequently ...
