Saint Jerome in the Wilderness - by Leonardo da Vinci. It was during a difficult period in his life, just prior to departing for Milan in 1482, that Leonardo worked on his most tragic painting and yet another destined to remain unfinished. He was a man often subject to bouts of melancholy; notes in his diary show how low he was feeling at this
The Mona Lisa was painted a very long time ago, around the years 1503 to 1506. The famous artist Leonardo da Vinci created this beautiful painting during a period called the Renaissance. During this period, Leonardo da Vinci was living in Florence, Italy.The Mona Lisa painting is around 500 years old.The Mona Lisa. 1507 - 1516. Oil on walnut panel. Room 052B. This version of the Mona Lisa ( Louvre) was painted by one of Leonardo’s pupils. The fact that each pentimento, or change, in Leonardo’s original (to the bust, outline of the veil and position of the fingers) is repeated here suggests that the two works were created simultaneously. In L.H.O.O.Q. the found object (objet trouvé) is a cheap postcard reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's early 16th-century painting Mona Lisa onto which Duchamp drew a moustache and beard in pencil and appended the title. The Mona Lisa and its influence. The influence of the Mona Lisa on the Renaissance and later times has been enormous, revolutionizing contemporary portrait painting.Not only did the three-quarter pose become the standard, but also Leonardo’s preliminary drawings encouraged other artists to make more and freer studies for their paintings and stimulated connoisseurs to collect those drawings. zMBNf.