Leonardo


Leonardo da Vinici (b.1452, ?where?;  d.1519, ?where?)



Leonardo da Vinici (c.1452-1519)


Period: High Renaissance
Major works:  Virgin of the Rocks, Cartoon for the "Virgin and
Child with St. Anne and the Infant St. John", Last Supper, 
portrait of the Lady La Gioconda (Mona Lisa), The Great Horse
(sculpture never complete due to a local war; completed on the 
500th aniversery in Queens New York, and presented to the 
people of Italy as a present).

His thing: Revolution: 
Hung around: 
Influences: Nanni di Banco (formal unity
                    of figures, creating a "dialog" between the figures
and the use of psychological cross-references. [Gardner, p.428]






Chronology