Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany

Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco   NEW!

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
The Adoration of the Magi, 1481

Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Drapery for a Seated Figure

Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Mona Lisa – Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo, ca.1503-19

Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Portrait of Isabella d'Este, 1499-1500

Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne, ca.1503-19

Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Virgin of the Rocks

Louvre Museum Database, Paris

Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French)  
Page forward for numerous works on paper by Leonardo da Vinci

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City   NEW!  

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.

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh   NEW!

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

National Gallery, London, UK

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam   NEW!

The Royal Collection, London, UK
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

Philadelphia Museum of Art   NEW!

Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Two Designs for Machines

San Diego Museum of Art, California   NEW!

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   NEW!

Virtual Uffizi
Adoration of the Magi
Annunciation

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
3 works online when last checked

 

Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

Leonardo da Vinci
Website about Leonardo da Vinci, his Paintings and Life

Leonardo da Vinci at The Art Renewal Center

The Artchive  

The Athenaeum  

Web Gallery of Art  

WebMuseum  

Wikimedia Commons Image Database  

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian)  
The Drawings of Leonardo

1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian)  
The Complete Paintings of Leonardo

Aiwaz Panopticon
Gallery of 12 drawings

Aiwaz Panopticon
Gallery of 18 paintings

Aiwaz Panopticon
Scroll down for 3 galleries of works influencing or influenced by Leonardo's Mona Lisa

California State University WorldImages Database  

CGFA  

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

Free Christ Images  

Google Art Project
Adoration of the Magi (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)

Google Art Project
Annunciation (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)

Google Art Project
Baptism of Christ (with Andrea del Verrocchio) (Uffizi Gallery, Florence)

Humanities Web  

Jetset Image Galleries

Liam's Pictures from Old Books  
Complete text and some images from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci

Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)  
La Madonna Litta

Olga's Gallery

RKD Netherlands Imagebase   NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions

State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site

USC Annenberg School for Communication

USC Annenberg School for Communication

Additional Image Search Tools:
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Leonardo da Vinci: Man of Both Worlds

Leonardo's Horse
Home page of the group behind the enormous horse sculpture which Leonardo designed but was never able to complete. The statue now stands in Milan.

The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci

Universal Leonardo

Blue.fr (in French)  
(note: site crashes my version of Internet Explorer)

FBI Art Theft Program
Madonna of the Yarnwinder, stolen from Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland

Halta Definizione
Extremely high resolution reproduction of Leonardo's fresco The Last Supper

Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation

PBS
The story behind the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911

Rocbo Culture (in French)  
Geometric analysis of 2 works by Leonardo

The BBC
"Unseen Da Vinci works go on show" (A Virgin on the Rocks and a newly attributed Mary Magdalene)

The British Library, London, UK
View Leonardo's sketchbook

The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)

The Sydney Morning Herald
Article with a good reproduction of a painting of Mary Magdalene, now attributed to Leonardo

Welcome to Tuscany
Battle of Anghiari (scroll down)

 

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

RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History  

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

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

Wikiquote, compendium of quotations from the Wikimedia Foundation