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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 Madonna and Child oil painting

Painting ID::  40971

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Madonna and Child
mk159 c.1490-91 Tempera on canvas transferred from panel 42x33cm
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci The Anunciacion oil painting

Painting ID::  41945

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Leonardo Da Vinci
The Anunciacion
mk166 c. 1470 I wave and tempera on board of wood 98x217cm
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci The Virgin and the Nino with Holy Ana oil painting

Painting ID::  41957

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Leonardo Da Vinci
The Virgin and the Nino with Holy Ana
mk166 Between 1508 and 1510 Painting on wood 168x130cm
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci The Virgin of the rocks oil painting

Painting ID::  41959

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Leonardo Da Vinci
The Virgin of the rocks
mk166 1483 I Wave on cloth 199x12cm Museum of the Louvre, Paris
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci The last dinner oil painting

Painting ID::  42648

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Leonardo Da Vinci
The last dinner
MK169 ca.1495-98 Mural 460x856cm
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Maria with Child and St. Anna oil painting

Painting ID::  42649

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Maria with Child and St. Anna
MK169 1508-10 Panel 168x130cm Louvre, Paris
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa oil painting

Painting ID::  42650

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Mona Lisa
MK169 1503-06 Panel 76.8x53.3cm Louvre, Paris
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Madonna with the Yarnwinder oil painting

Painting ID::  44460

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Madonna with the Yarnwinder
c. 1501 Oil on panel, 48,3 x 36,9 cm
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa oil painting

Painting ID::  44881

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Mona Lisa
mk176 c.1503-05 Oil on wood 30x21
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Drawing of an Infant oil painting

Painting ID::  44882

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Drawing of an Infant
mk176 c.1510-12 Accademia venice
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Hi Hieronymus oil painting

Painting ID::  45191

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Hi Hieronymus
mk180 um 1480 Vatikanische Museen
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Study fur the Sforza monument oil painting

Painting ID::  45844

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Study fur the Sforza monument
mk178 1485-1490 silver pencil on blue paper 14.8x18.5cm
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Madonna and Child with St Anne and the Young St John oil painting

Painting ID::  52318

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Madonna and Child with St Anne and the Young St John
1507-08
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Battle of Anghiari oil painting

Painting ID::  52329

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Battle of Anghiari
1503-05 Oil on panel, 85 x 115 cm
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Madonna with the Yarnwinder after 1510 oil painting

Painting ID::  52330

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Madonna with the Yarnwinder after 1510
Oil on panel
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Equestrian monument oil painting

Painting ID::  52331

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Equestrian monument
1517-18 Black chalk on paper, 278 x 184 mm
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci A full-scale composition of the Virgin and Child with St Anne and the infant St John the Baptist oil painting

Painting ID::  52741

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Leonardo Da Vinci
A full-scale composition of the Virgin and Child with St Anne and the infant St John the Baptist
mk223 before he left Milan,between 1497 and 1499
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Mona Lisa oil painting

Painting ID::  53716

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Mona Lisa
mk234 1503 77x53cm
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Lady with Ermine oil painting

Painting ID::  53717

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Lady with Ermine
mk234 about 1485 54x39cm
   
   
     

 

 

Leonardo Da Vinci Kvinnoportratt oil painting

Painting ID::  53718

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Leonardo Da Vinci
Kvinnoportratt
mk234 about 1474 39x37cm
   
   
     

 

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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.