Read the additional visitor guidelines. Leonardo da Vinci — is one of the most intriguing personalities in the history of Western art. Trained in Florence as a painter and sculptor in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio —Leonardo is also celebrated for his scientific contributions.
His curiosity and insatiable hunger for knowledge never left him. He was constantly observing, experimenting, and inventing, and drawing was, for him, a tool for recording his investigation of nature. Although completed works by Leonardo are few, he left a large body of drawings almost 2, that record his ideas, most still gathered into notebooks.
He was principally active in Florence —ca. His genius as an artist and inventor continues to inspire artists and scientists alike centuries after his death. He recorded his constant flow of ideas for paintings on paper.
In his Studies for the Nativity Similarly, in a sheet of designs for a stage setting Leonardo also drew what he observed from the world around him, including human anatomyanimal and plant life, the motion of water, and the flight of birds.
He also investigated the mechanisms of machines used in his day, inventing many devices like a modern-day engineer. These works also demonstrate his fascination with physiognomy, and contrasts between youth and old age, beauty and ugliness. The Last Supper ca.
Even in its current state, it is a masterpiece of dramatic narrative and subtle pictorial illusionism. Leonardo chose to capture the moment just after Christ tells his apostles that one of them will betray him, and at the institution of the Eucharist.
The effect of his statement causes a visible response, in the form of a wave of emotion among the apostles. His head is also the vanishing point toward which all lines of the perspectival projection of the architectural setting converge. The apostles are arranged around leonardo da vincis kändaste konstverk in four groups of three united by their posture and gesture.
Judas, who was traditionally placed on the opposite side of the table, is here set apart from the other apostles by his shadowed face. Mona Lisa ca. An aura of mystery surrounds this painting, which is veiled in a soft light, creating an atmosphere of enchantment.
She looks directly at the viewer, but her arms, torso, and head each twist subtly in a different direction, conveying an arrested sense of movement. Leonardo explores the possibilities of oil paint in the soft folds of the drapery, texture of skin, and contrasting light and dark chiaroscuro.
Bambach, Carmen. Bambach, Carmen C.