Leonardo da Vinci

Italian, Vinci 1452–1519 Amboise · 11 works on DiscoverArt

Highlights from the discussion

Unpopular opinion after seeing her in person: the crowd is the artwork. Three hundred phones in the air and she just sits there, unbothered, behind the glass.

Brian Kelly · ♥ 6 · on Mona Lisa →

Everyone talks about the smile, but look at the landscape behind her — two horizons that do not line up. The mystery is not only in her face.

Priya Raghavan · ♥ 3 · on Mona Lisa →

Ha! I had the same experience. But go early on a weekday and you get ninety seconds almost alone with her. The smile really does follow you.

Carmen Reyes · on Mona Lisa →

Works

The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right1510–13

Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci (from Characaturas by Leonardo da Vinci, from Drawings by Wincelslaus Hollar, out of the Portland Museum)1786

Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)1496

The Head of a Grotesque Man in Profile Facing Rightafter 1500

Head of a Man in Profile Facing to the Left1490–94

Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Diagram of a Perspectival Projection (recto); Slight Doodles (verso)● On view · Gallery 899

Divine ProportionVenice: Paganinus de Paganinus, 1509

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