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| Leonardo da Vinci art links |
| |  Leonardo da Vinci: Ginevra de' Benci, ca.1474 Source: WebMuseum (see "image archives" below)
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How from age to age the art of painting continually declines and deteriorates when painters have no other standard than work already done.
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Leonardo da Vinci Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
N.B. For the sake of readability, we have organized external links into these different tabs:
Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia The Madonna and Child (The Litta Madonna), 1490-91 The Madonna and Child (The Benois Madonna), 1478
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Caricature of a Man with Bushy Hair, 1495 Studies for the Christ Child with a Lamb, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre Museum, Paris Flash presentation: A Closer Look at the Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre Museum, Paris Drapery for a Seated Figure, 1470
Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre Museum, Paris The Adoration of the Magi, pen and ink drawing, 1481
Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre Museum, Paris Portrait of Lisa Gherardini (Mona Lisa or La Gioconda), 1503-06
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)  Page forward for numerous works on paper by Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City  Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman
Leonardo da Vinci at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museo di Vinci, Italy The museum of Leonardo's home town. The main portion of the collection appears to consist of a variety of models of Leonardo's inventions.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas  (Zoomify viewer requires Java in order to view images)
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery, London, UK Mysterious Virgin: the symbolism and secret history represented in Leonardo's Virgin of the Rocks
National Gallery, London, UK Paintings in depth: A hidden painting behind the Virgin of the Rocks
Leonardo da Vinci at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 6 works by Leonardo da Vinci
The Royal Collection, London, UK (Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image") Many drawings online
Vatican Museums, Vatican City St Jerome
American Museum of Natural History, New York City Leonardo's Codex Leicester: A Masterpiece of Science
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Christ Church College Picture Gallery, Oxford, UK A Grotesque Head, black chalk drawing, ca.1503-07
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK 2 works by or related to the artist
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York Cartoon for the Mona Lisa, ca.1503
Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French)  Click on the artist name, then on the artwork title to view the work
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French)  (If the image is not clickable, click "Agrandir l'image" to enlarge the image)
Museum of Science, Boston Leonardo da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra Study for the head of Christ for The Last Supper, ca.1495
National Museum of Science and Technology, Milan Exhibit showing many of Leonardo's inventions and manuscripts
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City Two Designs for Machines
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Leonardo da Vinci at the The British Museum, London, UK
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German)  Figurenstudien zur "Anbetung der Könige", drawing
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums A Rider on a Rearing Horse, 1481-83 The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist, ca.1499-1500 Studies of the Paw of a Dog or Wolf, 1490
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Leonardo da Vinci  Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt) 
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Artnet Magazine Half-length of an Apostle
ARTnews "A Work in Progress"
ARTnews "The Mona Lisa: Is She Smiling for Two?"
ArtWatch International (Free registration required) Discussion of the Universal Leonardo Project, which intends to oversee a scientific analysis of all of Leonardo's known paintings
ArtWatch International (Free registration required) Restoration of Leonardo's Adoration of the Magi
ArtWatch International (Free registration required) Uffizi's cleaning of Leonardo da Vinci's The Baptism of Christ
FAD - art fast news "Christie's sued for selling £100m Da Vinci drawing for £11,400" (article has a gorgeous reproduction of the newly attributed drawing)
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists Biography of the artist. Detailed, but Vasari's anecdotes are sometimes inaccurate.
International Herald Tribune (now part of the New York Times organization) "Shock Waves of Leonardo's Last Supper," article by Roderick Conway Morris
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes) 
PBS "Leonardo's Horse"
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "Inevitable distortion of the original", 1999 article by Adrian Searle
The Guardian Newspaper, UK Essay on A Grotesque Head, 1504
The Guardian Newspaper, UK "Magic remains in the spirit of the latest Last Supper", 1999 article by Adrian Searle
The London Evening Standard "The great Leonardo - a dilettante without peer", 2006 article by Brian Sewell
The New York Observer "Leonardo Da Vinci Left Breathtaking Painting Incomplete", article by Hilton Kramer
The New York Times Article about the Portland Museum of Art's alternate version of La Gioconda (the Mona Lisa), possibly by Leonardo
Time Magazine "Beyond the Skin's Frontier", 1984 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine "He Drew Like An Angel", 2003 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine "The Apocalypse on a Postcard: The drawings of Leonardo", 1981 article by Robert Hughes
Time Magazine "Empirical Queen of the Sciences", 1974 article by Robert Hughes
Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation
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