short biography

Leonardo da Vinci (1452 born in Vinci / Italy, died 1519 in Castle Cloux near Amboise / France) was a universal genius, who worked as a painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mechanic, engineer, philosopher and naturalist and he is one of the most famous artists of all epochs. He tried to develop the synthesis of science and art. Famous works are: The Last Supper, 1497; Vitruvian Man, 1490; Lady with an Ermine, 1490; Mona Lisa, 1506; The Virgin and Child with St Anne, 1510; Self-portrait in red chalk, 1512; Embryo in the Womb, 1512.

Renaissance, painting, drawings, sculpture, architecture, map, mathematics, geometry, physics, engineering, cartography, poetry, philosophy, music, anatomy, astronomy, medicine, pedagogy

http://www.louvre.fr/en/expositions/saint-anne-leonardo-da-vinci-s-ultimate-masterpiece

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collection/s

Albertina, Wien Alte Pinakothek, München Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen Courtauld, London Galleria Nazionale, Parma Getty, Los Angeles Louvre Paris Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museo Leonardiano di Vinci Museum of Fine Arts Budapest National Gallery, London National Museum, Krakow National Portrait Gallery, London Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan Pinakothek der Moderne, München Queen´s Gallery, London Royal Academy of Arts, London Santa Maria delle Grazie Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg / RUS Uffizi Galleries, Florence
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