Leonardo da Vinci Virtual Museum

A virtual museum you walk through, with works by Leonardo.

Mona Lisa. Oil on poplar panel, 77 × 53 cm, painted between 1503 and 1516. The sfumato dissolves the outlines into the faintest layers, and that is what makes the expression impossible to pin down. Musée du Louvre, Paris.
The Last Supper. A 4.6 × 8.8 m wall painting in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, made between 1495 and 1498. Leonardo worked in tempera on a dry wall instead of true fresco, which is why it began to flake in his own lifetime.
Lady with an Ermine. Oil on walnut, 54 × 39 cm, around 1489–1491. The sitter is identified as Cecilia Gallerani, of Ludovico Sforza's court in Milan. Czartoryski Museum, Kraków.
Ginevra de' Benci. Oil and tempera on poplar, 38.8 × 36.7 cm, painted in Florence between 1474 and 1478. It is the only Leonardo painting on public view in the Americas. National Gallery of Art, Washington.
Virgin of the Rocks. Oil on panel transferred to canvas, 199 × 122 cm, around 1483–1493. There are two versions of the painting: this is the Louvre one — the angel points at John and no one wears a halo — while the other is in the National Gallery, London.
The Virgin and Child with St. Anne. Oil on panel, 168 × 112 cm. Leonardo began it around 1501 and kept working on it until the end of his life without ever calling it finished. Three generations locked into a single pyramid. Musée du Louvre, Paris.
Vitruvian Man. Pen and brown ink on paper, 34.4 × 24.5 cm, around 1490. It illustrates the bodily proportions described by the Roman architect Vitruvius, with the notes written in mirror script. Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, where it is rarely shown because of its fragility.
Head of a Woman (La Scapigliata). Earth, amber and white lead on panel, 24.7 × 21 cm, around 1506–1508. It was left unfinished: the face is modelled and the hair barely sketched around it. Galleria Nazionale, Parma.
Head of a Young Girl. Silverpoint heightened with white on prepared paper, 18.1 × 15.9 cm, around 1483–1485. It is the study for the angel in the Virgin of the Rocks, which is also in this room. Biblioteca Reale, Turin.

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