How Leonardo da Vinci Created Narratives in His Paintings Leonardo da Vinci

Premiered November 18, 2024
How Leonardo da Vinci Created Narratives in His Paintings

Leonardo da Vinci paints The Virgin on the Rocks and the portrait Lady with an Ermine.

About the Program

Leonardo da Vinci

A 15th century polymath of soaring imagination and profound intellect, Leonardo da Vinci created some of the most revered works of art of all time, but his artistic endeavors often seemed peripheral to his pursuits in science and engineering. Through his paintings and thousands of pages of drawings and writings, Leonardo da Vinci explores one of humankind’s most curious and innovative minds.

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