Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

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Born in Anchiano, Italy, on April 15, 1452 painter, engineer, architect, inventor, drawing, anatomical studies, hydrology, botany, optics, geology Learning never exhausts the mind.

The body was considered an energetic instrument. When your internal ratios are distorted, your field fragments. When they are harmonized, presence gains gravity. Intention gains force. You are not inside the cosmos. You are structured like it.

“Saint John the Baptist” is a High Renaissance oil painting on walnut wood by Leonardo da Vinci. Likely to have been completed between 1513 and 1516, it is believed to be his final painting. Its original size was 69 by 57 centimetres. The painting is in the collection of the Louvre.

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“The Annunciation” The subject matter of the work is drawn from Luke 1.26–39. It depicts the angel Gabriel announcing to Mary that she would conceive miraculously and give birth to a son to be named Jesus and called "the Son of God", whose reign would never end.

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Ginevra de' Benci is a portrait painting by Leonardo da Vinci of the 15th-century Florentine aristocrat Ginevra de' Benci. Exhibited at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. US; it is the only painting by Leonardo on public view in the Americas.

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