Leonardo Da Vinci - Most importants paintings
Full Color | Only pictures | PDF | 22 MBDespite the recent awareness and admiration of Leonardo as a scientist and inventor, for the better part of four hundred
years his enormous fame rested on his achievements as a painter and on a handful of works, either authenticated or attributed to him that have been regarded as among the supreme masterpieces ever created.
These paintings are famous for a variety of qualities which have been much imitated by students and discussed at
great length by connoisseurs and critics. Among the qualities that make Leonardo's
work unique are the
innovative techniques that he used in laying on the paint, his detailed
knowledge of anatomy, light, botany and geology, his interest in physiognomy and the way in which humans
register emotion in expression and gesture, his innovative use of the human form in figurative
composition and his use of the subtle gradation of tone. All these qualities come together in his most famous painted works, the Mona Lisa, the Last Supper and the Virgin of the Rocks