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Ginevra de' Benci by Leonardo da Vinci

Ginevra de' Benci

Leonardo da Vinci · 1476

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Artist
Leonardo da Vinci
Date
1476
Location
National Gallery of Art
ART MOVEMENTS
Academic artHigh RenaissanceRenaissance
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Leonardo da Vinci

1452–1519 · Republic of Florence

Leonardo da Vinci, the ultimate Renaissance polymath, filled notebooks with observations on everything from anatomy to flight, alongside masterpieces like the 'Mona Lisa'.

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Mona Lisa Mona Lisa 1503 · Department of Paintings of the Louvre A Bear Walking A Bear Walking 1477 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Diagram of a Perspectival Projection (recto); Slight Doodles (verso) Compositional Sketches for the Virgin Adoring the Christ Child, with and without the Infant St. John the Baptist; Diagram of a Perspectival Projection (recto); Slight Doodles (verso) 1480 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Portrait of a Musician Portrait of a Musician 1485 · Pinacoteca Ambrosiana The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right The Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right 1510 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Two Deformed Heads with Very Long Upper Lips Two Deformed Heads with Very Long Upper Lips 1645 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Three Heads in Profile Three Heads in Profile The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Virgin and Child with an Angel Virgin and Child with an Angel Botticelli · 1470 · Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Drunkenness of Noah Drunkenness of Noah Michelangelo · 1509 · Sistine Chapel The Assumption of the Virgin The Assumption of the Virgin Greco · 1577 · Art Institute of Chicago Lucretia Lucretia Raphael · Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Beyond da Vinci and Renaissance: works from the same years, and from the other movements Ginevra de' Benci belongs to.

Jacopo Pesaro, Bishop of Paphos, being presented by Pope Alexander VI to Saint Peter Same movement · High Renaissance Jacopo Pesaro, Bishop of Paphos, being presented by Pope Alexander VI to Saint Peter Titian · 1504 · Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp Christ Child with a Walking Frame Same era · 1460s–1490s Christ Child with a Walking Frame Hieronymus Bosch · 1480 · Kunsthistorisches Museum The Entombment of Christ Same movement · Academic art The Entombment of Christ Caravaggio · 1600 · Pinacoteca Vaticana Young Man Holding a Book Same era · 1460s–1490s Young Man Holding a Book Master of the View of Saint Gudula · 1475 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Head of a Child Same movement · Academic art Head of a Child Jacques-Louis David · 1768 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Lamentation Same era · 1460s–1490s The Lamentation Albrecht Dürer · 1477 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Joseph-Antoine Moltedo (born 1775) Same movement · Academic art Joseph-Antoine Moltedo (born 1775) Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres · 1805 · The Metropolitan Museum of Art Virgin and Child with Two Angels Same era · 1460s–1490s Virgin and Child with Two Angels Sandro Botticelli · 1468 · Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg
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