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Da Vinci Works
YGK These Works by Leonardo da Vinci
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The earliest work attributed to Leonardo, a figure added to his teacher Verrocchio’s painting | The Left Angel in The Baptism of Christ |
| The teacher of Leonardo who supposedly "swore off painting" after seeing his student's superior angel | Andrea del Verrocchio |
| Leonardo’s earliest major complete canvas, depicting Gabriel kneeling before Mary in a Tuscan courtyard | The Annunciation |
| The only Leonardo da Vinci painting held in a collection in the United States | The Portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci |
| The city and museum where Ginevra de’ Benci is currently housed in 2026 | Washington, D.C. (National Gallery of Art) |
| The plant featured in the background of the portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci, referencing her name and virtue | Juniper bush |
| The two versions of a Leonardo painting that depict the Virgin, an angel, and the infants Jesus and John the Baptist | The Virgin of the Rocks (or Madonna of the Rocks) |
| The Duke of Milan who commissioned Leonardo to create a massive 25-foot horse statue | Ludovico Sforza |
| The sculptor who finally realized Leonardo’s "Great Horse" design in a 1999 casting | Nina Akamu |
| The ink drawing of two superimposed nude male figures exploring human proportions | Vitruvian Man |
| The Roman architect whose writings inspired Leonardo’s drawing of the "Vitruvian Man" | Vitruvius |
| The portrait of Ludovico Sforza’s mistress, Cecilia Gallerani, holding a white weasel | Lady with an Ermine |
| The animal Cecilia Gallerani cradles, which was likely a symbol of her purity or chastity | Ermine (or stoat/white weasel) |
| The location of the mural The Last Supper, a Dominican convent in Milan | Santa Maria della Grazie |
| The technical reason The Last Supper began to decay almost immediately | Painted with tempera on a dry wall (not a fresco on wet plaster) |
| The apostle in The Last Supper shown spilling salt and leaning lower than the others | Judas |
| The alternative name for the Mona Lisa, likely referring to the wife of Francesco del Giocondo | La Gioconda |
| The surface on which the Mona Lisa was painted, which made its 1911 theft more difficult | Wood panel |
| The man who stole the Mona Lisa from the Louvre in 1911 and hid it for two years | Vincenzo Peruggia |
| The Marcel Duchamp "readymade" that parodies the Mona Lisa by adding a moustache and goatee | L.H.O.O.Q. |
| The work widely considered to be Leonardo da Vinci's last completed painting, finished shortly before his 1519 death | Saint John the Baptist |
| The pupil and longtime companion of Leonardo who served as the model for Saint John the Baptist | Salaì |
| The signature Leonardo technique, named for the Italian word for "smoke," used to create soft transitions between colors | Sfumato |
| The distinctive pose of the figure in Leonardo's Saint John the Baptist | Smiling and pointing upward with the right arm |
| The objects the figure in Saint John the Baptist clutches to his chest | Furs and a cross |
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