What are Leonardo da Vinci's masterpieces?

Representative works include Mona Lisa, Last Supper, Hammer Manuscript, etc.

1, Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa is an oil painting created by Italian Renaissance painter Leonardo da Vinci, which is now in the Louvre Museum. This painting mainly shows the typical image of women's elegance and tranquility, and shapes the image of bourgeois women in a city during the rise of capitalism.

Mona Lisa represents the aesthetic direction of the Renaissance. The profound and noble ideological quality of women reflected in this work reflects people's aesthetic concept and pursuit of female beauty during the Renaissance.

Every year, about 6 million people go to the Louvre to see the Mona Lisa. 1952, Germany issued the first Mona Lisa stamp.

2. The Last Supper

The Last Supper was created by Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci. It is based on the last supper of Jesus and the twelve disciples in the Bible.

The expressions of panic, anger, doubt and remorse, as well as gestures, eyes and behaviors of the characters in the picture are vividly portrayed, which is the most famous of all works created on this theme. Collected in Santa Maria Thanksgiving Church in Milan, Italy.

3. Hammer manuscript

The hammer manuscript is a book published by Leonardo da Vinci in beijing institute of technology press, 20 13. This book is a draft manuscript left by Leonardo da Vinci, a great artist and scientist in the Renaissance, covering anatomy, architecture, astronomy, rocks and fossils, with a total of 72 pages.

Leonardo da vinci was diligent in taking notes all his life, and wrote tens of thousands of pages of manuscripts, of which there are more than 5,000 pages in existence. There are few dates in his voluminous but messy manuscript. In fact, people have become accustomed to calling Da Vinci's manuscript "a piece of paper with vague meaning". Because of this, the 72-page hammer manuscript he wrote in Milan is even more precious.

Extended data

Mona Lisa oil painting: the work has gone through four creative stages: the first layer is a sketch portrait of an unknown object, from which we can see that the head, nose and hands are larger and the lips are smaller; On the second floor, leonardo da vinci covered the manuscript with a portrait inlaid with pearl hair ornaments.

The third floor is a portrait of lisa gherardini, created in 1503. Pascal thought it was the original Mona Lisa, and he thought it was "another woman's portrait". The Mona Lisa in the painting smiled and looked to the left, which was the standard portrait at that time. The fourth floor is the Mona Lisa oil painting: the face turns slightly to the right, even the eyes turn to the right.

Mona Lisa was created from 1503 to 1506. This painting was created at the turning point of leonardo da vinci's life, that is, he returned to Florence from the palace of Milan Forza, where he served for 17 years.

It is quite possible that Leonardo won the support of Machiavelli, a politician, during that time. He is mainly engaged in military engineering and uses his spare time to create paintings. After Leonardo painted the Mona Lisa, he devoted himself to the reconstruction plan of the Arno River.

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