Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the Renaissance era known for works such as the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. He apprenticed as a young artist and established himself as a master by age 20. His ideas and works were greatly influenced by his interest in science and nature. Some of his most famous works include the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper. Johannes Vermeer was a Dutch Golden Age painter known for interior scenes, including works such as The Milkmaid and Girl with a Pearl Earring. Relatively little is known about his life, but he lived and worked in Delft, producing genre scenes and interior views that are among the most popular works of Dutch Golden Age painting.

1. “Leonardo da Vinci”
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
April 15, 1452 - May 02, 1519
"Mona Lisa" and "The Last Supper"

2. Leonardo da Vinci was
concerned with the laws of
science and nature, which
greatly informed his work as a
painter, sculptor, inventor and
draftsmen. His ideas and body
of work -- which
includes Virgin of the
Rocks,The Last Supper,
Leda and the Swan and Mona
Lisa -- have influenced
countless artists and made
da Vinci a leading light of the
Italian Renaissance.
Self-portrait in red chalk,
Royal Library of Turin Circa
1512 to 1515

3. At the age of 14, da Vinci
began apprenticing with the
artist Verrocchio. For six years,
he learned a wide breadth of
technical skills, including
metalworking, leather arts,
carpentry, drawing and
sculpting.
By the age of 20, he had
qualified as a master artist in
the Guild of Saint Luke and
established his own workshop.

4. Mona Lisa (also known as
La Gioconda or La
Joconde) is a sixteenth-
century portrait painted in
oil on a poplar panel in
Florence, Italy by Leonardo
di ser Piero da Vinci during
the Renaissance. The work
is currently owned by the
Government of France and
is on display at the Louvre
museum in Paris under the
title Portrait of Lisa
Gherardini, wife of
Francesco del Giocondo.
Arguably, it is the most
famous and iconic
paintingin the world.
This is a sixteenth-century
portrait painted in oil on a
poplar panel in Florence, Italy
during the Renaissance.
The work is currently owned by
the Government of France and
is on display at the Louvre
museum in Paris under the title:
“Portrait of Lisa Gherardini,
wife of Francesco del
Giocondo”Mona Lisa
La Gioconda or La Joconde

5. Mona Lisa (also known as
La Gioconda or La
Joconde) is a sixteenth-
century portrait painted in
oil on a poplar panel in
Florence, Italy by Leonardo
di ser Piero da Vinci during
the Renaissance. The work
is currently owned by the
Government of France and
is on display at the Louvre
museum in Paris under the
title Portrait of Lisa
Gherardini, wife of
Francesco del Giocondo.
Arguably, it is the most
famous and iconic
paintingin the world.
The painting is a half-length
portrait and depicts a woman
whose facial expression is
frequently described as
enigmatic.
Others believe that the slight
smile is an indication that the
subject is hiding a secret.

6. 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.

7. Leonardo began work
on The Last Supper in
1495 and completed it in
1498—he did not work
on the painting
continuously.
The beginning date is not
certain, as the archives of
the convent for the period
have been destroyed and a
document dated 1497
indicates that the painting
was nearly completed at
that date.

8. A drawing created by
da Vinci in Circa 1490. It is
accompanied by notes based
on the work of the
architect Vitruvius.
The drawing, which is in
pen and ink on paper,
depicts a male figure in two
superimposed positions
with his arms and legs apart
and simultaneously
inscribed in a circle and
square.
VITRUVIAN MAN
Canon of Proportions or,
Proportions of Man.

9. Siege Machine, c. 1480
View of a Skull, c. 1489 Study of Skeletons
Design for a Flying Machine, c. 1488

10. "The noblest pleasure is the joy
of understanding."

11. “Jan Vermeer”
Johannes Vermeer
October 31, 1632 - December 16, 1675
“Little Street” and “View of Delft”

12. For a long time relatively
little was known about
Vermeer's life. He seems to
have been exclusively
devoted to his art, living
out his life in the city of
Delft. In the 19th century
the only sources of
information were some
registers, a few official
documents and comments
by other artists; it was for
this reason that Thoré
Bürger named him "The
Sphinx of Delft"

13. The Procuress
1656
Oil-on-canvas
painting which shows
a genre scene in
a brothel - one of the
two women is the
eponymous procuress
while the figure on the
left has been identified
by some as a self
portrait of the artist.

14. View of Delft is an oil painting painted ca.
1660-1661, the painting of the Dutch artist's
hometown is among his most popular.

15. The Girl with the Wine Glass
1659-1660 painting
by Johannes
Vermeer, now in
the Herzog Anton
Ulrich Museum in
Braunschweig

16. 1664-65
Oil on canvas,
Metropolitan
Museum of Art,
New York
Young woman with
a water pitcher

17. The Milkmaid
An oil-on-canvas
painting of a
"milkmaid", in fact a
domestic kitchen
maid.
It is now in
the Rijksmuseu
in Amsterdam,
Netherlands, which
regards it as
"unquestionably one
of the museum's
finest attractions“.

18. Girl with a Pearl Earring
This is
considered a
Vermeer
masterpiece.

19. http://www.biography.com/people/leonardo-da-vinci-
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http://www.drawingsofleonardo.org/
http://www.biography.com/people/jan-vermeer-
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_Vermeer