It grabs hold of your imagination and answers all riddles in the end. You will never look at a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo Da Vinci the same way again.
How from age to age the art of painting continually declines and deteriorates when painters have no other standard than work already done. - Leonardo da Vinci in his Treatise on Painting
Leonardo da Vinci. The Last Supper. after cleaning. 1498. Tempera on plaster. 460 x 880 cm (15 x 29 ft.) Convent of Santa Maria delle Grazie (Refectory), Milan. See also: Jesus Decoded
Benois Madonna , Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1478. His use of oil painting technique enabled him to achieve depth and intensity of coloring and transparency in the effects of light and shade.
Leonardo da Vinci Leonardo DA VINCI (b. 1452, Vinci, Republic of Florence [now in Italy]--d. ... A copy made by an apprentice of a da Vinci painting which never dried. Da vinci made numerous ...