8. Virgin of the Rocks (1483- 1486) The Virgin of the Rocks (sometimes the Madonna of the Rocks) is the name used for two paintings by Leonardo da Vinci, of the same subject, and of a composition which is identical except for several significant details. The version generally considered the prime version, that is the earlier of the two, hangs in The Louvre in Paris and the other in the Leonardo da Vinci - Renaissance, Art, Science: In December 1499 or, at the latest, January 1500—shortly after the victorious entry of the French into Milan—Leonardo left that city in the company of mathematician Lucas Pacioli. After visiting Mantua in February 1500, in March he proceeded to Venice, where the Signoria (governing council) sought his advice on how to ward off a threatened The Mona Lisa. 1507 - 1516. Oil on walnut panel. Room 052B. This version of the Mona Lisa ( Louvre) was painted by one of Leonardo's pupils. The fact that each pentimento, or change, in Leonardo's original (to the bust, outline of the veil and position of the fingers) is repeated here suggests that the two works were created simultaneously. Childhood: 1452-1467. Apprenticeship: 1467-1476. A Troubled Beginning: 1476-1482. The Master Moves to Milan: 1482-1489. New Housemates, and The Last Supper: 1490-1499. The Military Engineer: 1500-1503. Return to Florence, and The Mona Lisa: 1503-1505. Return to Milan: 1506-1513. STEVE EMBER: We start with one of Leonardo da Vinci's most famous drawings, called "Vitruvian Man." This work is a good example of his ever questioning mind, and his effort to bring together La Belle Ferronnière (French pronunciation: [la bɛl fɛʁɔnjɛʁ]) is a portrait of a lady, usually attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, in the Louvre.It is also known as Portrait of an Unknown Woman. The painting's title, applied as early as the seventeenth century, identifying the sitter as the wife or daughter of an ironmonger (a ferronnier), was said to be discreetly alluding to a reputed Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, engineer, architect, inventor, and student of all things scientific. His natural genius crossed so many disciplines that he epitomized the term " Renaissance Leonardo was born in 1452, apparently in a Tuscan village called Anchiano, not far from Vinci, and died in France in 1519. He may be best known as an artist but he was also an engineer, thinker Salvator Mundi, oil on walnut panel believed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1500. Salvator Mundi, painting attributed to Leonardo da Vinci that was completed about 1500. It became the most expensive work of art ever sold when it was auctioned at Christie's, New York, on November 15, 2017, for $450.3 million. The Annunciation is a painting widely attributed to the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1472-1476. Leonardo's earliest extant major work, it was completed in Florence while he was an apprentice in the studio of Andrea del Verrocchio.The painting was made using oil and tempera on a large poplar panel and depicts the Annunciation, a popular biblical subject in 15th Lc7zAT.