How to identify Leonardo DaVinci paintings

You will agree with me that; everyone whether young or old, male or female, no matter where they come from love the works of one artist or the other. Leonardo DaVinci is one man who has a large patronage all over the world due to his excellence in art. There is a saying that, “you can recognize someone you know very well even when he or she is in the dark”. That’s the same way you will have to be able to identify Leonardo DaVinci’s paintings if you love them. But, it’s okay if you can’t identify his works when you see them although you love them, here are some tips that will help you identify his works and other things you never knew about him. Read on…..

Leonardo DaVinci an Italian was born in the year 1452 but died in the year 1519, blew the minds of people with his creativity and style in art although, he was also an engineer and architect. Even though he was very famous, he actually finished fairly few paintings but two of his works “Mona Lisa” and “The last supper” are the best known Leonardo DaVinci paintings of all times. These few tips will help you know how to identify his works apart from him being left handed.

Looking for more lifelike figures than in earlier painters’ works will be a good start because; Leonardo as an artist captured life around him by always sketching and scribbling in his journal. He was also one of the first painters’ to show more movement and not just rigid, posed portraits of human and animal subjects in his paintings.

Like some painters’ mix their colors on a palette, Leonardo rather layered them thinly on the work of art to develop rich textures, color blends and an almost three – dimensional effect. You therefore have to know that, the ability to create a three – dimensional effect artwork was enhanced by Leonardo’s study and sketching of the human form. Therefore notice the individual layers of paint that are thin, not thick stroke of already blended colors.

Leonardo often used a blend of paint brushes and his own thumb to get the effects he wanted on his picture. He was one of the first of his time to use oil paints because; he enjoyed the freedom to amend a painting in progress. Note, he was also an inventor and a designer of flying machines.

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Quick Facts about Leonardo Da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci was the painter who painted the mona lisa, an architect and an Italian scientist. He was born near Florence in 1452 and died in 1519 in Amboise - ville deTouraine in France. Conscious of his own genius, Leonardo presented himself has a painter, a theorist and a scientist. In fact, which imported for him, it is the mental activity behind the work of art, which is for him the expression more speaking about doctrinal knowledge, mechanics while being a practical application.

He is the natural son of a notary and a peasant. Leonardo enters in 1469 the workshop of Verrochio (Florentin artist appearing among the largest sculptors) which will be influence before he's being influenced by him. Its works going back to this time show with more or less certainty the first signs of its direction in art - the mystery and its disconcerting grace.

One year later, it was allowed at the Guild of the painters of Florence. After having collaborated in work of its Master, it obtains his first important order: worship of the Magi (1481), unfinished work where one distinguishes already the process from the sfumato as well as the pyramidal composition who marked deeply the art of the Renaissance.

In 1500, Leonardo goes in Mantoue (Portrait of Isabelle d' Este), at Venice, where its stay will have significant consequences to the Venetian painting and to Florence, where he will remain until 1506: He painted there the Mona Lisa and two works now lost, Léda and the Battle of Anghiari, the latter intended for Palazzo Vecchio. Moreover, he undertakes work of military architecture. However, since 1506, it is, in Milan, with the service of the French, in particular of the cardinal Charles d' Amboise, large amateur of Arts. It works on another equestrian order, the monument of Giangiacomo Trivulce. Leonardo leaves Milan in 1513, when the duchy is reconquered

Leonardo goes to Rome, where it is one of the artists protected by Julien de Médicis. Its research relates to mathematics and the draining of the marshes Pontins, this project having received the pontifical agreement. Its personality of painter will give the place to Da Vinci the scientist, while the Roman artistic scene is dominated by Michel-Angelo and Raphaël. Also, after the death of Julien de Médicis, in 1516, it accepts the offers of another large patron, the king of France François I, recent winner of the battle of Marignan, and since 1517 it is in Amboise, with the manor of Close-Lucé. It takes part in the organization of the royal festivals, but will not paint any more, its right hand being gained by the paralysis. Leonard da Vinci dies out on May 2nd, 1519, according to the legend in the arms of François I.

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