Artwork
Lady with an Ermine (Cecilia Gallerani)
Cecilia Gallerani, the young favourite of Ludovico Sforza, turns toward an unseen speaker while holding a white ermine, an emblem of Ludovico.
Painter of the Last Supper and the Mona Lisa, and a man without letters who filled thousands of pages, written right to left, with water, birds, bones, light and machines. Ask him how he saw them.
Cecilia Gallerani, the young favourite of Ludovico Sforza, turns toward an unseen speaker while holding a white ermine, an emblem of Ludovico.
A man inscribed in a circle and a square, drawn to test the measures that the Roman architect Vitruvius gave for the human body. The notes above and below are written in mirror script.
The moment after Christ says that one of the twelve will betray him, painted across the end wall of a monks' dining hall. Leonardo's experimental technique began to fail within his lifetime.