Leonardo da Vinci Prints
1452–1519 · Italian · High Renaissance
Wall art by Leonardo da Vinci, restored in-house and printed to order on heavyweight matte fine-art paper.
22 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
About Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo da Vinci was born in April 1452 near the Tuscan town of Vinci, the illegitimate son of a notary, and was apprenticed as a boy to Andrea del Verrocchio in Florence, where he was registered as a master in the painters' guild by 1472. In about 1482 he moved to Milan to serve Ludovico Sforza, and there painted the Virgin of the Rocks, the portrait of Cecilia Gallerani known as Lady with an Ermine, and, on the refectory wall of Santa Maria delle Grazie between about 1495 and 1498, The Last Supper. He returned to Florence in 1500, where he had begun the Mona Lisa by October 1503 and kept it with him, reworking it, for years; a second Milanese period, a stay in Rome and a final invitation from Francis I of France followed, and he died at Amboise in May 1519. Leonardo finished few paintings, but he filled thousands of notebook pages with anatomy, engineering, optics and water, and the drawing known as the Vitruvian Man, from about 1490, belongs to that study. His painting technique, built from near-transparent glazes with no hard edges, gives his faces their soft, breathing quality, and it is that softness, rather than detail, that a print carries.