Leonardo da Vinci's Paintings
Around twenty surviving paintings are universally accepted as autograph or substantially executed by Leonardo da Vinci, alongside contested attributions and lost murals. Explore the complete chronological catalogue below with technical analysis, provenance, and high-resolution plates.
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Leonardo produced a remarkably compact painting oeuvre across nearly five decades. Unlike contemporaries who ran large commercial workshops producing dozens of altarpieces annually, Leonardo treated painting as an investigative scientific instrument, refining subtle sfumato transitions over years or carrying unfinished panels across the Alps.
Each individual painting page provides documented provenance, archival contracts, infra-red reflectography undermodelling, and historical cross-links to related notebook leaves and workshop associates.
Florence I — Verrocchio Workshop & Early Independence (1472–1481) 7 Paintings
Earliest independent commissions and collaborative altarpieces in Verrocchio's Florentine bottega.
Milan I — The Sforza Years (1482–1499) 6 Paintings
Monumental court commissions, anatomical breakthrough, and revolutionary sfumato in the service of Ludovico il Moro.
Itinerant Years — Florence II, Mantua, Romagna (1500–1506) 3 Paintings
Nomadic engineering for Cesare Borgia, republican rivalry with Michelangelo, and portable devotional panels.
