Introduction to Leonardo da Vinci's works

1. The Woman Holding the Silver Mouse is a wooden oil painting created by Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci at the end of 15. It is now in the Saudi Reski Museum in Krakow. This exquisite portrait depicts the noble and quiet Cecilia Gallera, the mistress of ludovico sforza, Duke of Milan. Later, this work was redrawn by an anonymous person, and this unfriendly atmosphere was even stronger. Anyway, Cecelia's beautiful face and hands were obviously written by the master. Besides, leonardo da vinci breathed life into this smooth and aggressive silver mouse. The treatment of light and shade is the most striking part of this portrait. Light and shadow set off Cecilia's elegant head and soft face. Leonardo da vinci frequently expounds theoretically the light source that illuminates people's faces in the room, and creates the illusion of indirect lighting by the method of light and shade-the balance of light and shadow in the intense contrast between light and shadow.

2. Portrait of a Lady with a Pearl Headdress is an oil painting created by Leonardo da Vinci in 1490. From 1483, Leonardo da Vinci left Florence and went to Milan, where he worked for Dovic Sforza, Grand Duke of Milan, and was employed as a court painter and engineering designer until the end of 1499. This is Leonardo da Vinci's first Milan period. First, Ying Da Finch left Milan to escape the war. During this period, Leonardo da Vinci's main artistic contribution was to make a bronze horse-riding statue for sforza's father. Although it was not finished in the end, this creative task consumed him a lot of energy. Milan was a place with developed metallurgical technology at that time, which greatly enriched Leonardo da Vinci's knowledge of metal smelting. In addition, Lombardy is the most developed area for canal construction in almost the whole century. As an engineering technician, Leonardo became familiar with water conservancy engineering and became a water conservancy expert. The original design of his plane was completed here. In painting, besides his masterpieces, we can't underestimate the unimportant female portraits in his painting history. During his stay in Milan, Leonardo da Vinci received special courtesy from the Queen of Milan, Cecilia Greani. The queen took a precious scarf made of gold and silver from her shoulder and put it on Leonardo da Vinci's neck and shoulders. She also took the laurel of the moon from the secretary of the Grand Duke Liu and put it on the head of the great painter, and happily conferred a knighthood on Leonardo da Vinci. This not only shows the respect of Milan court for this artist, but also shows the social status that Leonardo da Vinci won with his extraordinary talent. In order to thank the Queen for her kindness, the painter showed the beauty of the Queen with a portrait of his wife holding a weasel (1483.5). Since then, all the ladies in the palace want to have a self-portrait by this outstanding master. This portrait of a lady wearing a pearl headdress is one of them.

3. The Virgin of Lactation is an oil painting created by Italian painter Leonardo da Vinci in 1490, and now it is collected in the Taj Mahal Museum in Elmy, Soviet Union. The image of the baby in the virgin's arms is vividly depicted, full of images, silence and tender love from the young mother. There is no written basis for whether "Mother Breastfeeding" was written by other students. Here, the painter emphasizes the universal humanity of maternal love. Full image, quiet expression, full of a young mother's gentle and loving heart. However, the Madonna's face still shows Leonardo da Vinci's usual description formula, paying too much attention to the block structure of women's eyes (which is shown in a large number of Madonna statues after him). The image of the baby in the virgin's arms is vividly painted, but here it is still the color processing that gives way to the rationality of the anatomical structure. In a word, this painting is an example of his early portrait art, during which Leonardo da Vinci was absorbed in his scientific study of human body description.