Leonardo da Vinci: 11 fundamental works of the Italian genre

Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, sculptor, architect, military engineer, but some of him signed up for History linked to painting, and here we will select 11 of his fundamental works in chronological order.

1. To Anunciação

Painted between the years 1472 and 1475, A Anunciação is an oil on wood and represents Leonardo's first steps in painting, although they all agree as verdict.

This work was "hidden" in a mosteiro at 1867 when it was transferred to Galleria degli Uffizi, in Florença, This is a painting attributed to Domenico Ghirlandaio, a contemporary painter of Leonardo and also an apprentice in the office of Verrocchio.

More later studies and analyzes of work based on theory than this painting is Leonardo's two first works. Na truth, it will be a work carried out jointly, you can analyze the work perceived that on the basis of the same it will be executed by Master Verrocchio, as well as Virgem.

Leonardo terá executed or anjo, or carpet of flowers and or fund (or sea and mountains). It is clear that the scientific precision is that the handles of the anjo were painted, in a design that was prepared for the sleeves of anjo attributed to Leonardo.

It also seems obvious to the difference between the delicacy of the anjo and the majesty of the cold of Virgem. Give the same form here or use light-dark and sfumato.

In terms of topic, we have a representation of the biblical moment in which I visit Virgem to tell him that she will give birth or messias, filho de Deus.

2. Portrait of Ginevra de ’Benci

O Portrait of Ginevra de 'Benci was painted by Leonardo between the years 1474 and 1476. An oil on wood is the portrayed figure and Ginevra de 'Benci, an aristocratic young man from Florença, famous and admired for her intelligence.

At the head of young people, it is molded by the leaves of a zimbro bush, and I found it to be able to contemplate a careful natural landscape.

A expressão da youth is severe and haughty, and like most of the women of that time, also Ginevra raspou as sobrancelhas.

The size of the work was pickled, originally made up of a young man's waist and would include a representation of his own resting on his lap.

3. To Virgem das Rochas

A Virgem das Rochas is an oil on wood and was executed around 1485. Here, the figures are in front of a grotto and so their forms are wrapped in a mist (sfumato) that gives the painting a somewhat surreal characteristic.

This composition is a perfect example of the light-dark domain of Leonardo's painting, as well as the sfumato.

The subject dealt with in this painting is unique and enigmatic, we represent São João em menino to adore Jesus in the presence of the Virgin from an angle.

The meaning of this composition is not easy to define, but perhaps it is a segregated use of the gesture (characteristic detail and of great importance for the artist).

Each figure is reproducing a different gesture, and here like other figures in other paintings, or anjo points with its pointing finger, in this case not for the top, but in the direction of São João.

In the meantime, Virgem protects, São João is in a position of adoration and Menino Jesus is benzendo.

4. Vitruvian Homem

Around the year of 1487, Leonardo created or Vitruvian Homem, a drawing of ink on paper, of two male figures superimposed with arms and legs separated within a circle and a square.

O Desho is accompanied by notes based on the work of the famous architect Vitruvius Pollio. It is considered a study of the proportions and a perfect fair position between science and art, as well as two more identifying works of the artist, scientist and inventor than was Leonardo da Vinci.

Read an in-depth analysis of Homem Vitruviano, by Leonardo da Vinci.

5. Lady with Arminho

A Dama com Arminho é um oil on wood painted for two years 1489-1490 by Leonardo. The figure represented is Cecilia Gallerani, allegedly a lover of the Duke of Milão, Lodovico Sforza, to burn Leonardo trabalhou.

Due to various interventions over the course of two centuries, the original painting disappeared and was completely darkened, part of the dress was also added to the hair around it.

Analysis of the painting will reveal an original case holder. Moreover, it is also discovered that Leonardo will have changed his ideas to or paint a figure and that originally a position of two arms of the lady would be different and that arminho was later accented.

To the survival of this painting, I tied years of leafing and quasi a miracle, pois since 1800 when it was bought by a Polish prince, sofreu various repaints, exile and esteve in hiding due to invasions and wars. In 1939, after the Nazi invasion, a painting was found attached to an SS soldier.

6. La Belle Ferronière

Painted between the years 1490 and 1495, La Belle Ferronière is an oil on wood. The figure represented will be an unknown woman, a filha or wife of a ferreiro.

This painting is one of two unique four portraits of the painter, other three being Mona Lisa, A Lady with Arminho and or Portrait of Ginevra de ’Benci.

7. To Last Ceia

Last Ceia is a mural painting executed by Leonardo between the years 1493-1498 on the wall of the repository of the Convent of Santa Maria Delle Grazie in Milão.

This is a work that will give notoriety to the artist. More unhappily, since Leonardo's father was painted a composition with a tempera technique of oil instead of the usual ovo tempera, the work begins to deteriorate-it is little depois da sua completion.

We have to make an effort to imagine all the splendor of the original painting, knowing that it is a miracle that we can still contemplate the work.

As the title indicates, the painting represents the last match between Christ and his disciples. Or messias is located in the center of the composition and behind the head, located or the central point of flight in terms of perspective.

On the top of the head of Christ a frontão exercises the function of a specie of aureola, giving more uma An indication of how the architecture of this painting serves as a support for the figures it represents or the focus. fundamental.

Either moment captured will either be Christ announcing that a two of his disciples or he will bring something It is based on the agitated gesticulation of the figures to the turn of Christ in opposition to his calm and passividade.

Go to the detailed analysis of the work A Ultima Ceia.

8. Salvator mundi

Salvator Mundi is an oil on canvas, possibly painted between the years 1490 and 1500, allegedly for King Louis XII of France and his consort, Ana, Duchess of Bretanha.

During the years 1763 I attached 1900 to this painting that is now missing and is credited with being destroyed. Depois was uncovered, restored and attributed to Leonardo, therefore, there are many scholars who consider this attribution as wrong.

In November of 2017, the work was sold as Leonardo's and was sold, for an anonymous buyer, establishing a new price for a piece of art sold (450,312,500 dollars).

A composition presents a Christ the Savior of the world, securing a crystal globe with his hand drawn and blessed with direct access. He is dressed in traditional costumes from Renascença.

9. Mona Lisa

A Mona Lisa (also known as A Gioconda) is an oil on wood painted by Leonardo between 1503-1506. This painting portrays Mona Lisa, the young wife of Francesco de Giocondo, second Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574, painter, architect and biographer of various Italian Renaissance artists).

This work was acquired by Francisco I, king of France from 1515 to 1547. In 1911 the painting was roubada and recovered in 1913.

On this work there are incontáveis ​​theories and speculations, but a true wonder of the same there is just not an enigmatic smile, but a technique used.

Here we have an introduction to the atmospheric perspective that will influence so much Baroque and Velázquez later. In this portrait Leonardo placed the figure in the foreground, painting it with clarity in the landscape and represented in a soft and progressively splayed way.

Assimus we fear the illusion of afastamento, and olhando to painting we feel that the feminine figure is close to nós, enquanto a paisagem it becomes aggravated, and where or olhar loses no horizon that does not distinguish itself more as shapes. This is a perfect use of smoke and the atmospheric (aerial) perspective.

In relation to the figure of himself, and his famous sorriso, a similar expression is found in other figures of the artist's work (Santa Ana and São João Evangelista in Ultima Ceia, for example).

Porém, or sorriso could have been only a reliable representation of the disposition of the model, or to the influence archaic sorriso da grega art (see image of Koré) from the classical era that influenced so much art rebirth.

See detailed analysis of the Mona Lisa.

10. A Virgem e o Menino com Santa Ana

This painting, oil on wood, was executed in 1510 by Leonardo. Nela are represented three biblical figures: Santa Ana, her filha de la Virgen Maria e o Menino Jesus. I know that I am less safe than my cordeiro.

The figures are represented in a pyramidal shape in front of a rocky bottom and little defined and where the two contours of Santa Ana are diluted without adding to the landscape.

Despite the iconographic composition, it is a common representation, or this painting is in the position of Mary, seated not begging her mother, Santa Ana.

11. São João Batista

São João Batista is an oil on wood, painted by Leonardo between the years 1513 and 1516. It is possible that it has been the last work of the artist, in the last years of Renascença and not the beginning of Maneirism.

Our São João painting has the pointing finger of direct hand pointing to the céu (a gesture frequently repeated in the artist's works), perhaps reinforcing the importance of the batismo for the salvation of the soul.

This representation of the figure of São João Batista goes against all the others who appear to be a saint as a lean and fierce figure.

Here he is represented on a dark and indecipherable background, and com traços for many more feminine than masculine. His posture, wrapped in a cordeiro's skin, is more of a sensuality, a seducer, making the figures two satyrs of Greek mythology.

A work and disturbing and disturbing. The androgynous characteristic of Leonardo's painting is, more often than not, in evidence of this work, as well as the domain of the light-dark technique. Also, this representation of São João Batista repeats or smiles found in other figures such as Mona Lisa or Santa Ana.

Curiously, when Leonardo aceitou or invitation of Francisco I to move to France in 1517, this painting, together with Mona Lisa and A Virgem e o Menino com Santa Ana, for three works that he decided to carry with him.

Biography of Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo (1452–1519) was born in a small town from Florença, Vinci. As he was the illegitimate filho of a notary and a woman who had probably been a slave, he was retired almost 5 years and with 14 years he entered Verrochio's office as an apprentice.

Sem sobrenome, he happened to be known as Leonardo da Vinci. Or his full name would be Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, which means Leonardo filho de (Mes) ser Piero de Vinci, since the paternity of Leonardo is attributed to Messer Piero Fruosino di Antonio gives Vinci.

Despite the fact that he has made a history, it is still very much linked to painting, but there are just a few more than 2 duzias of paintings attributed to him. For this reason, he was not a very prolific painter.

Curious mind, he was interested in everything, but in truth he was not fully dedicated to anything. Porém, o seu contribution and influence of him for painting, and general art, and inegável and chega até years of leaf,

For Leonardo, painting was an art par excellence, pois or painter finishes his works as effort of reason, logo and an intellectual, enquanto or sculptor finishes his works as physical effort.

These and other ideas, will contribute to or misunderstanding that for years was nurtured between Leonardo and Michelangelo (for which sculpture was a major art and that he considered oil painting as something of his own for mulheres).

As it was referred to, Leonardo frequentou to the office of Verrochio enquanto young, and it is recorded that despite até nós não ter chegado nenhum portrait of a young Leonardo, who a sculpture of Davi de Verrochio has the traces of Leonardo who, as a young man, has quite a bearing attractive.

No year 1476, in addition to Verrocchio's office, Leonardo was accused of sodomy, and later acquitted of the accusation.

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