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- Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was born in a Tuscan hamlet near Vinci He began a nine-year apprenticeship at the age of 14 to Andrea del Verrocchio, a popular sculptor, painter and goldsmith who was an important figure in the art world of the day
- Leonardo da Vinci Biography
Born in 1452 in Vinci, Italy, Leonardo da Vinci focused on the laws of sciences and nature early in his life This respect and knowledge allowed him to depict these things in his artwork They not only helped inform him as a painter, but also as a sculptor, draftsmen, and an inventor
- Design for a Giant Crossbow - by Leonardo da Vinci
A certain ambivalence is apparent in Leonardo da Vinci's military engineering Leonardo was irresistibly attracted by the possibility of perfecting weapons, not only as a technical challenge but also more profoundly in terms of the physical principles involved
- Saint Jerome in the Wilderness - by Leonardo da Vinci
Saint Jerome in the Wilderness - by Leonardo da Vinci It was during a difficult period in his life, just prior to departing for Milan in 1482, that Leonardo worked on his most tragic painting and yet another destined to remain unfinished
- Star of Bethlehem - by Leonardo da Vinci
Star of Bethlehem - by Leonardo da Vinci An exquisite drawing of plant form, this Star of Bethlehem is dated around 1506-8 and is in pen and ink over red chalk underdrawing
- Robotic Knight - by Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci's robot has not survived and no one knows exactly what it was capable of doing, but apparently it could walk, sit down and even work its jaw It was driven by a system of pulleys and gears
- Dragon Striking Down Lion - by Leonardo da Vinci
Dragon Striking Down Lion - by Leonardo da Vinci Dragon Striking down Lion gives us once more the scope of Leonardo's imagination Without it he would never have been able to invent so many machines centuries ahead of his time
- Litta Madonna - by Leonardo da Vinci
Litta Madonna - by Leonardo da Vinci Though a drawing exists to connect Leonardo with this painting its attribution to Leonardo has been a great source of controversy There is little doubt he had a hand in the unsigned Litta Madonna, but it is awkwardly composed and more than likely was completed by his pupil Boltraffio, around 1480-1490
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