Introducing 11 Works by Master Leonardo da Vinci
①Annunciation
This work is estimated to be a product of the time independent of a studio of the teacher Verrocchio with a work of the early period of Leonardo.
The scene which tells that archangel Gabriel sent by God visits the cause of the Maria as for the Annunciation which is a theme and carries Son of God. I have been expressed as one of the serious doctrines by many pictures in Christianity.
The first characteristic of Leonardo's work is that nothing that does not exist in nature appears in it. There are no gods, doves, or mystical rays of light, and the depiction of an early spring field with symbolic flowers blooming is a showpiece for Leonardo, who had a keen eye for plants. The Virgin Mary on the right has a golden cloth wrapped around her abdomen, and as the same depiction can also be seen in the "Virgin of the Rocks," this is considered to be a symbol unique to Leonardo, signifying Mary's purity. In addition, the delicate depiction of the angel's chestnut curly hair and the blurring of the distant view, similar to the background of the "Mona Lisa," make this a masterpiece that showed the artist's talent when he was around 20 years old.
The first characteristic of Leonardo's work is that nothing that does not exist in nature appears in it. There are no gods, doves, or mystical rays of light, and the depiction of an early spring field with symbolic flowers blooming is a showpiece for Leonardo, who had a keen eye for plants. The Virgin Mary on the right has a golden cloth wrapped around her abdomen, and as the same depiction can also be seen in the "Virgin of the Rocks," this is considered to be a symbol unique to Leonardo, signifying Mary's purity. In addition, the delicate depiction of the angel's chestnut curly hair and the blurring of the distant view, similar to the background of the "Mona Lisa," make this a masterpiece that showed the artist's talent when he was around 20 years old.
Leonardo da Vinci "Annunciation" 1472-73 age/98*217cm/Uffizi Gallery, Italy
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②Baptism of Christ
It is the work which Leonardo of around 20 years old training itself in a Verrocchio studio and the teacher Verrocchio created.
It is the altar image that Verrocchio was asked for for the sun saruvi monastery of Florence. Christ, St. John, the approximate background become the hand of the teacher, but it is said that pupil Leonardo corrected the background with an angel of the left edge. Which painter in not only the Verrocchio but also the 15th century was not able to describe the expression of the expression of the angel who was out of himself/herself and the curly hair which glittered delicately, the complicated figure that twisted a head a little, the soft shadow of clothes in a voice of the sky which blessed Christ, the mysterious miracle called the pigeon of the spirit of a dead person, too.
Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci "Baptism of Christ" 1472-73 age/177*151cm/Uffizi Gallery, Italy
③Adoration of Magi
It is the first masterpiece which Leonardo produced independently from a studio of the Verrocchio. He had a custom to often leave a work for as it is unfinished, but this product applies to it, too.
All the approximate designs are drawn on this draft, and it is the composition that is the most characteristic. The Virgin and Child is drawn beside a screen, and worshiping Three Wise Men are juxtaposed like a line by the front, but Leonardo usually locates 3 doctors in lower right and left in a pyramid type in Virgin and Child in the center of the screen.
Leonardo da Vinci "Adoration of Magi" 1481-82 years/243*246cm/Uffizi Gallery, Italy
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④Virgin of the Rocks
An altar image to display in the chapel attached to the sun Francesco Grande temple was asked for by the conception kindred spirit society of no original sin, and the Leonardo which fixed a residence for Milan in 1483 described this work.
By the original contract, Virgin and Child and an angel, two prophets (Isaiah and David) were going to be drawn, but St. John is described in the completion product in place of a prophet, and the subject is estimated when the Holy Family which escaped from infant slaughter is the scene based on the Bible lateral biography that met John the Baptist protected by an angel.
The closed space of the cave symbolizes virginity of the Holy Mother, and golden cloth is bound the abdomen of the Holy Mother with as well as initial product "Annunciation" again, and internal purity of the Holy Mother is emphasized because an angel points at it. It may be said that these reflect thought of the no original sin conception that the kindred spirit society that a request is important insists on.
It is the work which can be also known as collected studies of the search of the Leonardo including the triangle composition to assume description by sfumato and the aerial perspective, the minute expression, Holy Mother of the plant a top.
The closed space of the cave symbolizes virginity of the Holy Mother, and golden cloth is bound the abdomen of the Holy Mother with as well as initial product "Annunciation" again, and internal purity of the Holy Mother is emphasized because an angel points at it. It may be said that these reflect thought of the no original sin conception that the kindred spirit society that a request is important insists on.
It is the work which can be also known as collected studies of the search of the Leonardo including the triangle composition to assume description by sfumato and the aerial perspective, the minute expression, Holy Mother of the plant a top.
Leonardo da Vinci "Virgin of the Rocks" 1483-86 age/199*122cm/Musée du Louvre, France
⑤The lady who holds hakuten
This is the second of four portraits that Leonardo painted of female models, and was created during his time in the service of Marquis Ludovico Sforza (known as Il Moro) of Milan.
The model is Che Chile a garrerani in 1489 (around 15 years old) which became lorette of rudoviko. Imperial Court poet Bernardo berinchoni praises the beauty of one woman whom Leonardo drew with a sonnet (quatorzain) of around 1490 saying "even/sun is veiled if Che Chilean a is so beautiful now and compares it with/eyes". Ten was "purity and a symbol of the moderation" in dobutsutan in the Renaissance at the same time as hakuten (stoat of the winter coat of fur) which Che Chilean a held in an arm was rocky, and it was said with -" in Greek, and "it was a game of rhyming of her family name.
Judging from the change of the style of painting of the Leonardo, it is considered to be a work produced from 1489 through 90.
Leonardo da Vinci "lady holding hakuten" 1489-90 age/54.8*40.3cm/Czartoryski Museum (Krakow National Gallery annex), Poland
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⑥Last Supper ＜before restoration＞ (top) ＜after the restoration＞ (bottom)
In around 1495, because rudoviko suforutsua (popular name yl moro) of Milan had the honor of being you as for the Leonardo in his early 40s, production of "the Last Supper" was asked for and described it in the obstacle of the restaurant of the monastery.
He captured the movement of 12 pupils surprised at words of Jesus saying, "there will be a person betraying me in this", and there is a head of yes at a disappearance point of the perspective that is a crossing point of the nature and symbolizes that he is in the world center.
As for this product, damage began at the time that Leonardo lived in from what was described in tempera technique (the thing which mixed flax oil and an egg with a color). It was for about 20 years until 1999 that the scientific repair was finished. I was able to come across the original masterpiece which Leonardo drew as a result that I wrote a dust and a dirt, and ka eno brush was removed. I reproduce before and after restoration to actual size with Sue board, and, in the Otsuka Museum of Art, comparison appreciation is possible.
He captured the movement of 12 pupils surprised at words of Jesus saying, "there will be a person betraying me in this", and there is a head of yes at a disappearance point of the perspective that is a crossing point of the nature and symbolizes that he is in the world center.
As for this product, damage began at the time that Leonardo lived in from what was described in tempera technique (the thing which mixed flax oil and an egg with a color). It was for about 20 years until 1999 that the scientific repair was finished. I was able to come across the original masterpiece which Leonardo drew as a result that I wrote a dust and a dirt, and ka eno brush was removed. I reproduce before and after restoration to actual size with Sue board, and, in the Otsuka Museum of Art, comparison appreciation is possible.
Leonardo da Vinci "Last Supper" 1495-98/420*910cm/Santa Maria derre guratsuie monastery restaurant, Italy
⑦Saint Anna and Virgin and Child
He left Milan, and, in 1499, the Leonardo returned home in Florence after an interval of 18 years. This work is a sketch of "Saint Anna and Virgin and Child" which were sometimes drawn. The Leonardo showed that I could completely grasp all only by shadow, the reflection that were an effect of the light, the black-and-white light and shade indicating the highlight with this product. It was said that this sketch itself, Leonardo showed finished new technique and sight in a perfect form, and it was not for oil painting. The Holy Mother looking at Christ is drawn with the look that was full of affection, the expression of the smile.
Leonardo da Vinci "Saint Anna and Virgin and Child" 1498/141.5*104.6cm/The National Gallery, the U.K.
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⑧Mona Lisa
This is a work that Leonardo is said to have kept and worked on until the very end. The prevailing theory about the model for the female figure is that it was Lisa, the wife of the Florentine textile merchant Francesco del Giocondo, but there is also a theory that it is not a portrait of a real person. Leonardo believed that there are no contours in nature, and he painted this work using the sfumato technique, which blurs the surroundings without drawing clear contours, allowing the subject to blend into the background. In the vast landscape in the background, he depicts the life of the earth and river, using aerial perspective to express a non-existent landscape.
Leonardo da Vinci "Monna Lisa" 1503-06 years/77*53cm/Musée du Louvre, France
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⑨Virgin of the Rocks
Leonardo is approximately of the same size, a work of the composition with "the Virgin of the Rocks" which I produced in 1483-86. Because request important kindred spirit society refused receiving as for the work which I created earlier, it is said that described this work according to a work of the Leonardo by Ambrojo de Predis.
The gesture that an angel points to the abdomen of the Holy Mother disappears with this work unlike the first product eyes and is assumed when this is because traditional kindred spirit society evaded direct gesture to show the abdomen of the Holy Mother. In addition, because halo and cross, wing above the head were added, I become easy to distinguish the Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, the angel, and yes grows up a little, and, as for the second work full of shadow, the Holy Mother is felt, too.
At the Otsuka Museum of Art, 2 paintings of "Madonna of the Rocks" are displayed side by side, allowing visitors to compare and appreciate the differences between them.
The gesture that an angel points to the abdomen of the Holy Mother disappears with this work unlike the first product eyes and is assumed when this is because traditional kindred spirit society evaded direct gesture to show the abdomen of the Holy Mother. In addition, because halo and cross, wing above the head were added, I become easy to distinguish the Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, John the Baptist, the angel, and yes grows up a little, and, as for the second work full of shadow, the Holy Mother is felt, too.
At the Otsuka Museum of Art, 2 paintings of "Madonna of the Rocks" are displayed side by side, allowing visitors to compare and appreciate the differences between them.
Ambrojo de Predis and Leonardo da Vinci "Virgin of the Rocks" around 1508? /189.5*120cm/The National Gallery, the U.K.
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⑩Saint Anna and Virgin and Child
Leonardo spent his later years under the protection of King Francis I of France at his château in Clos, Amboise, and there are records that he possessed this work at that time. However, it is not clear when this work was painted, and since he possessed it until the end, it is assumed that it was not commissioned for a specific cathedral, but rather expressed his own thoughts. Saint Anne is as great as the Earth Mother Goddess, embracing the Virgin Mary and Christ. For Leonardo, who was separated from his mother at a young age and longed for motherhood throughout his life, this image of the Great Mother = Earth is thought to have been very important.
Leonardo da Vinci "Saint Anna and Virgin and Child" around 1512/168.5*130cm/Musée du Louvre, France
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⑪St. John the Baptist
Leonardo died in 1519 at the age of 67. This is the last oil painting he did of a pioneer.
John the Baptist appeared before Christ and predicted the coming of Christ, but people did not believe him and he was executed. The picture is very dark, with only the face, shoulders, and arms lit by light. The real light is Christ, and John is prophesying in the darkness for the light to come. John is pointing to the heavens, which means that the truth is in the heavens. The one who alone bears witness to the light of truth in the darkness of delusion. This is a spiritual self-portrait of Leonardo, a pioneer who was far ahead of his time.