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Leonardo Da Vinci
Italian High Renaissance Painter and Inventor, 1452-1519 Italian High Renaissance Painter and Inventor, 1452-1519 Florentine Renaissance man, genius, artist in all media, architect, military engineer. Possibly the most brilliantly creative man in European history, he advertised himself, first of all, as a military engineer. In a famous letter dated about 1481 to Ludovico Sforza, of which a copy survives in the Codice Atlantico in Milan, Leonardo asks for employment in that capacity. He had plans for bridges, very light and strong, and plans for destroying those of the enemy. He knew how to cut off water to besieged fortifications, and how to construct bridges, mantlets, scaling ladders, and other instruments. He designed cannon, very convenient and easy of transport, designed to fire small stones, almost in the manner of hail??grape- or case-shot (see ammunition, artillery). He offered cannon of very beautiful and useful shapes, quite different from those in common use and, where it is not possible to employ cannon ?? catapults, mangonels and trabocchi and other engines of wonderful efficacy not in general use. And he said he made armoured cars, safe and unassailable, which will enter the serried ranks of the enemy with their artillery ?? and behind them the infantry will be able to follow quite unharmed, and without any opposition. He also offered to design ships which can resist the fire of all the heaviest cannon, and powder and smoke. The large number of surviving drawings and notes on military art show that Leonardo claims were not without foundation, although most date from after the Sforza letter. Most of the drawings, including giant crossbows (see bows), appear to be improvements on existing machines rather than new inventions. One exception is the drawing of a tank dating from 1485-8 now in the British Museum??a flattened cone, propelled from inside by crankshafts, firing guns. Another design in the British Museum, for a machine with scythes revolving in the horizontal plane, dismembering bodies as it goes, is gruesomely fanciful. Most of the other drawings are in the Codice Atlantico in Milan but some are in the Royal Libraries at Windsor and Turin, in Venice, or the Louvre and the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Two ingenious machines for continuously firing arrows, machine-gun style, powered by a treadmill are shown in the Codice Atlantico. A number of other sketches of bridges, water pumps, and canals could be for military or civil purposes: dual use technology. Leonardo lived at a time when the first artillery fortifications were appearing and the Codice Atlantico contains sketches of ingenious fortifications combining bastions, round towers, and truncated cones. Models constructed from the drawings and photographed in Calvi works reveal forts which would have looked strikingly modern in the 19th century, and might even feature in science fiction films today. On 18 August 1502 Cesare Borgia appointed Leonardo as his Military Engineer General, although no known building by Leonardo exists. Leonardo was also fascinated by flight. Thirteen pages with drawings for man-powered aeroplanes survive and there is one design for a helicoidal helicopter. Leonardo later realized the inadequacy of the power a man could generate and turned his attention to aerofoils. Had his enormous abilities been concentrated on one thing, he might have invented the modern glider.

 

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Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa (mk08) oil painting

Painting ID::  21276

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Mona Lisa (mk08)
c.1503-1505 Oil on wood, 77x53cm Paris,Musee National du Louvre
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Last Supper (mk08) oil painting

Painting ID::  21284

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Last Supper (mk08)
1495-1498 Oil tempera on plaster 460x880cm Milan,Santa Maria delle Grazie,Refectory
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Adoration of the Magi (mk08) oil painting

Painting ID::  21285

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Adoration of the Magi (mk08)
C.1481 Oil and bistre on wood 240x246cm Florence,Galleria degli Uffizi
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Virgin of the Rocks,completed (mk08) oil painting

Painting ID::  21286

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Virgin of the Rocks,completed (mk08)
c.1506 Oil on wood 190x120cm Loudon,National Gallery
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Virgin of th Rock (mk08) oil painting

Painting ID::  21287

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Virgin of th Rock (mk08)
c.1483 Oil on wood,transferred to canvas, 199x122cm Paris,Musee National du Louvre
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci The Virgin and St Anne (mk08) oil painting

Painting ID::  21288

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Leonardo Da Vinci
The Virgin and St Anne (mk08)
c.1508 Oil on wood,168x130cm Paris,Musee National du Louvre
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa (mk45) oil painting

Painting ID::  25886

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Mona Lisa (mk45)

   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Cecila Gallerani (mk45) oil painting

Painting ID::  25953

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Cecila Gallerani (mk45)
c.1484 Oil on panel. 54x40cm Krakow,Muzeum Narodowe
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci The Benois Madonna oil painting

Painting ID::  28338

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Leonardo Da Vinci
The Benois Madonna
Oil on canvas Transferred from panel 19 1/2x12 1/2"
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Leda and the Swan oil painting

Painting ID::  28848

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Leda and the Swan
mk65 Panel 51 3/16x30 1/2in Uffizi,Depository
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Abendmahl oil painting

Painting ID::  29403

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Abendmahl
mk66 1495-1497 Wandmalerei mit Ol und Tempera auf Putz 420x910cm S.Maria delle Grazie,Mailand
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Last Supper oil painting

Painting ID::  30446

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Last Supper
mk68 Tempera 13'9x29'10" Milan,Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa oil painting

Painting ID::  30456

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Mona Lisa
mk68 oil on wood 30 3/4x21" Paris,Louvre c.1507 Italy
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Details of Mona Lisa oil painting

Painting ID::  30913

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Details of Mona Lisa
mk68 c.1507
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Portrait de Mona Lisa dit La joconde oil painting

Painting ID::  30958

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Portrait de Mona Lisa dit La joconde
mk70 Bois H.0.77 L.0.53 Paris,Musee du Louvre
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Portrait de femme,dit a tort La belle ferronniere oil painting

Painting ID::  30959

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Portrait de femme,dit a tort La belle ferronniere
mk70 Bois. H.0,63; L.0,45 Paris,Musee du Louvre
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci La Vierge,l'Enfant Jesus et sainte Anne oil painting

Painting ID::  30960

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Leonardo Da Vinci
La Vierge,l'Enfant Jesus et sainte Anne
mk70 Bois. H.1,68 L.1,30 Paris,Musee du Louvre
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Saint jean-Baptiste oil painting

Painting ID::  30961

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Saint jean-Baptiste
mk70 Toile. H.0,69 L.0,57 Paris,Musee du Louvre
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Annunciation oil painting

Painting ID::  33247

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Annunciation
mk83 c.1437-1475
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa oil painting

Painting ID::  33455

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Mona Lisa
mk86 c.1503-1505 Oil on wood 77x53cm Paris,Musee National du Louvre
   
   
     

 

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Italian High Renaissance Painter and Inventor, 1452-1519 Italian High Renaissance Painter and Inventor, 1452-1519 Florentine Renaissance man, genius, artist in all media, architect, military engineer. Possibly the most brilliantly creative man in European history, he advertised himself, first of all, as a military engineer. In a famous letter dated about 1481 to Ludovico Sforza, of which a copy survives in the Codice Atlantico in Milan, Leonardo asks for employment in that capacity. He had plans for bridges, very light and strong, and plans for destroying those of the enemy. He knew how to cut off water to besieged fortifications, and how to construct bridges, mantlets, scaling ladders, and other instruments. He designed cannon, very convenient and easy of transport, designed to fire small stones, almost in the manner of hail??grape- or case-shot (see ammunition, artillery). He offered cannon of very beautiful and useful shapes, quite different from those in common use and, where it is not possible to employ cannon ?? catapults, mangonels and trabocchi and other engines of wonderful efficacy not in general use. And he said he made armoured cars, safe and unassailable, which will enter the serried ranks of the enemy with their artillery ?? and behind them the infantry will be able to follow quite unharmed, and without any opposition. He also offered to design ships which can resist the fire of all the heaviest cannon, and powder and smoke. The large number of surviving drawings and notes on military art show that Leonardo claims were not without foundation, although most date from after the Sforza letter. Most of the drawings, including giant crossbows (see bows), appear to be improvements on existing machines rather than new inventions. One exception is the drawing of a tank dating from 1485-8 now in the British Museum??a flattened cone, propelled from inside by crankshafts, firing guns. Another design in the British Museum, for a machine with scythes revolving in the horizontal plane, dismembering bodies as it goes, is gruesomely fanciful. Most of the other drawings are in the Codice Atlantico in Milan but some are in the Royal Libraries at Windsor and Turin, in Venice, or the Louvre and the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Two ingenious machines for continuously firing arrows, machine-gun style, powered by a treadmill are shown in the Codice Atlantico. A number of other sketches of bridges, water pumps, and canals could be for military or civil purposes: dual use technology. Leonardo lived at a time when the first artillery fortifications were appearing and the Codice Atlantico contains sketches of ingenious fortifications combining bastions, round towers, and truncated cones. Models constructed from the drawings and photographed in Calvi works reveal forts which would have looked strikingly modern in the 19th century, and might even feature in science fiction films today. On 18 August 1502 Cesare Borgia appointed Leonardo as his Military Engineer General, although no known building by Leonardo exists. Leonardo was also fascinated by flight. Thirteen pages with drawings for man-powered aeroplanes survive and there is one design for a helicoidal helicopter. Leonardo later realized the inadequacy of the power a man could generate and turned his attention to aerofoils. Had his enormous abilities been concentrated on one thing, he might have invented the modern glider.