Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath born in 1452 in Vinci, Italy. He is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time due to works like the Mona Lisa, The Last Supper, and The Lady with an Ermine. As a painter, Leonardo pioneered techniques like sfumato to create atmospheric perspectives in his works. He also had extensive interests and knowledge in science, mathematics, engineering, and more. Leonardo had an informal education as a youth and spent his life mastering multiple disciplines. He lived from 1452 to 1519.

2. LEONARDO DA VINCI
Leonardo di ser Piero daVinci (15 April 1452 – 2 May 1519) was
an Italian polymath, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician,
engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer,botanist, and
writer. He is widely considered to be one of the greatest painters of all time
and perhaps the most diversely talented person ever to have lived.
LIFE
Leonardo was born on 15 April 1452, "at the third hour of the
night"[nb in theTuscan hill town of Vinci.
 Leonardo had no surname in the modern sense, "da Vinci" simply
meaning "of Vinci": his full birth name was "Lionardo di ser Piero da
Vinci", meaning "Leonardo, (son) of (Mes)ser Piero from Vinci“.

3. Little is known about Leonardo's early life. He spent his first five
years in the hamlet of Anchiano in the home of his mother
then from 1457 he lived in the household of his father, grandparents
and uncle, Francesco, in the small town of Vinci. His father had married
a sixteen-year-old girl named Albiera, who loved Leonardo but died
young.When Leonardo was sixteen his father married again, to
twenty-year-old Francesca Lanfredini. It was not until his third and
fourth marriages that Ser Piero produced legitimate heirs.
Leonardo received an informal education in Latin, geometry and
mathematics.

4.  In later life, Leonardo recorded only two childhood incidents. One, which
he regarded as an omen, was when a kite dropped from the sky and
hovered over his cradle, its tail feathers brushing his face. The second
occurred while he was exploring in the mountains: he discovered a cave
and was both terrified that some great monster might lurk there and
driven by curiosity to find out what was inside.
Leonardo was, and is, renowned primarily as a painter.
Notable work(s): The Mona Lisa
The Last Supper
The Lady with an Ermine

5. MONALISA
The Mona Lisa is a half-length
portrait of a woman which has
been acclaimed as "the best
known, the most visited, the most
written about, the most sung
about, the most parodied work of
art in the world“.
The painting, thought to be a
portrait of Lisa Gherardini, the
wife of Francesco, is in oil on a
white Lombardy , and is believed
to have been painted between
1503 and 1506, although Leonardo
may have continued working on it
as late as 1517. It was acquired by
King Francis I of France and is now
the property of the French
Republic, on permanent display
at The Louvre museum
in Paris since 1797.

6. Value
It is believed that Francis bought Mona Lisa in 1504 or 1506 for $9,200. Among
works in the Louvre, in 1852 its market value was 90,000 francs compared to works
by Raphael valued at up to 600,000 francs. In 1913, it was reported that the English
government offered $5 million for the painting, the highest estimate of its value at
that time
Speculation
Although the sitter has traditionally been identified as Lisa del Giocondo, a lack of
definitive evidence has long fueled alternative theories, including Leonardo's
mother Caterina in a distant memory and the possibility that Leonardo used his
own likeness. Other aspects of the painting that have been subject to speculation
are the original size of the painting, whether it is the original, why it was painted,
and various explanations for how the effect of an enigmatic smile was achieved.

7. THE LAST SUPPER
The Last Supper is a late 15th-century fresco painting
by Leonardo da Vinci in the refectory of the Convent of Santa
Maria delle Grazie, Milan. It is one of the world's most famous
paintings, and one of the most studied, scrutinized, and
satirized

8. The Last Suppermeasures 460 cm × 880 cm (180 in × 350 in) and covers an end
wall of the dining hall at the monastery of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan,
Italy. The theme was a traditional one for refectories, although the room was
not a refectory at the time that Leonardo painted it.
The Last Supper specifically portrays the reaction given by each apostle when
Jesus said one of them would betray him. All twelve apostles have different
reactions to the news, with various degrees of anger and shock. The apostles
are identified from a manuscript
Speculations
The Last Supper has also been the target of much speculation by writers and
historical revisionists alike, usually centered on purported hidden messages or
hints found within the painting.
Some have identified the person to Jesus' right (left of Jesus from the viewer's
perspective), not as John the Apostle, but a woman, often purported to
beMary Magdalene. This speculation was the topic of the book The Templar
Revelation (1997) by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, and plays a central role
in Dan Brown's fiction novel The Da Vinci Code(2003).
There have also been other popular speculations about the work. It has been
suggested that there is no cup in the painting, yet Jesus' left hand is pointing
to the Eucharist and his right to a glass of wine. (There are several glasses on
the table, but they are difficult to see owing to the work's deterioration and

9. (There are several glasses on the table, but they are difficult to see owing to the work's
deterioration and restorations.) This is not the glorified chalice of legend as Leonardo
insisted on realistic paintings. To add realism, Leonardo copied the style of the plates,
glasses, utensils and the table cloth from the Dominican friars' refectory.

10. Lady with an Ermine
Lady with an Ermine is a painting
by Leonardo da Vinci from around
1489–1490. The subject of the
portrait is Cecilia Gallerani, and
probably was painted at a time when
she was the mistress of Duke of
Milan, and Leonardo was in the
service of the Duke. The painting is
one of only four portraits of women
painted by Leonardo, the others
being the Mona Lisa, the portrait of
Benci, and La belle ferronnière. It is
currently displayed at
the Czartoryski Museum, Poland.

11. Subject and symbolism
The small portrait generally called The Lady with the Ermine was painted in oils on
wooden panel. At the time of its painting, the medium of oil paint was relatively new
to Italy, having been introduced in the 1470s.
Cecilia Gallerani was a member of a large family that was neither wealthy nor noble.
Her father served for a time at the Duke's court. At the time her portrait was painted,
she was about 16 years old and was renowned for her beauty, her scholarship, and her
poetry. She was betrothed at the approximate age of 10 years to a young nobleman
of the house of Visconti but the marriage was called off. Cecilia became the mistress
of the Duke and bore him a son, but he chose to marry a woman from a nobler
family, Beatrice d'EsteThere are several interpretations of the significance of
the ermine in her portrait. The ermine, a stoat in its winter coat, was a
traditional symbol of purity because it was believed an ermine would face death
rather than soil its white coat.
Her painting shows a half-length figure, the body of the young woman turned at a
three-quarter angle toward her right, but her face turned toward her left. Her gaze is
directed neither straight ahead, nor toward the viewer, but toward a "third party"
beyond the picture's frame. In her arms, Gallerani holds a small white-coated stoat
known as an ermine.

12. In his old age, Leonardo compiled a bestiary in which he recorded:
MODERATION : The ermine out of moderation never eats but once a day, and it
would rather let itself be captured by hunters than take refuge in a dirty lair, in order
not to stain its purity.
ame the mistress of the Duke and bore him a son, but he chose to marry a woman from
a nobler family.

13. Thank you….
The presentation was given by
Introduction Siddharth Jain (B.com LLB)
Monalisa the painting Ria Sharma (BBA LLB)
The last supper the painting Riya Chatterjee (BA LLB)
The lady with an ermine the painting Soniya Brar (BA LLB)
To : MR. MANOJ KUMAR SIR