Sigmund Freud undertook a psychoanalytic examination of Leonardo in his essay Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood.

Tongerlo Abbey contains a very old and fine copy of Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper.

The square contains statues of Christopher Columbus, Simón Bolívar, José de San Martín, Prince Henry the Navigator, the 1st Marquess of Westminster, a bust of George Basevi, and a sculpture entitled Homage to Leonardo, the Vitruvian Man, by Italian sculptor Enzo Plazzotta.

The film also contains several long closeups of Leonardo da Vinci's Adoration of the Magi.

) It contains the first complete solution of the quadratic equation x < sup > 2 </ sup >-ax + b = 0 known in Europe and influenced the work of Leonardo Fibonacci.

The church contains the mural of the Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, which is in the refectory of the convent.

It also contains a large collection of incunabula, prints, and drawings of European artists — Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Rembrandt, Rubens, Gainsborough, Dürer, and Picasso, early printed Bibles, amongst them, three Gutenberg Bibles, and many examples of fine bookbinding.

From January 2008 when the church celebrated its 40th anniversary, a modern day version of Leonardo Da Vinci's " Last Supper " by local artist Nicholas St John Rosse has hung above the main altar in the church.

In 1878, the Baedeker guide called it " the most celebrated work of Leonardo in the Louvre ".

In about 1489, she sat for Ludovico's court artist and engineer, Leonardo da Vinci, who painted her celebrated portrait, which is known as The Lady with an Ermine.

It was designed by Leonardo Fioravanti who had been responsible for some of Ferrari's most celebrated shapes to date such as the Daytona, the Dino and the Berlinetta Boxer.

His reputation had spread throughout Europe and he was on friendly terms and in communication with most of the major artists including Raphael, Giovanni Bellini and — mainly through Lorenzo di Credi — Leonardo da Vinci.

In 1505, Leonardo da Vinci wrote the Codex on the Flight of Birds, one of the earliest treatises on aerodynamics.

* The Last Supper, Leonardo Da Vinci, Milan ( technically a tempera on plaster and stone, not a true fresco )

Leonardo Torres y Quevedo, in 1914 published an analysis of floating point based on the analytic engine.

In January 1990, Rafael Leonardo Callejas, having won the presidential election, took office, concentrating on economic reform, reducing the deficit.

It comes to the fore in Italian Renaissance painting, where a series of increasingly ambitious works were produced, many still religious, but several, especially in Florence, which did actually feature near-contemporary historical scenes such as the set of three huge canvases on The Battle of San Romano by Paolo Uccello, the abortive Battle of Cascina by Michelangelo and the Battle of Anghiari by Leonardo da Vinci, neither of which were completed.

Reynolds made extracts in his commonplace book from Theophrastus, Plutarch, Seneca, Marcus Antonius, Ovid, William Shakespeare, John Milton, Alexander Pope, John Dryden, Joseph Addison, Richard Steele, Aphra Behn and passages on art theory by Leonardo da Vinci, Charles Alphonse Du Fresnoy, and André Félibien.

The Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci, oil on panel, 1503 – 19, probably completed while the artist was at the court of Francis I of France | Francis I.

Alberti believed in ideal beauty, but Leonardo filled his notebooks with observations on human proportions, page after page, ending with the famous drawing on the Vitruvian man, a human figure related to a square and a circle.

After only a year, Leonardo made a list of his misdemeanours, calling him " a thief, a liar, stubborn, and a glutton ", after he had made off with money and valuables on at least five occasions and spent a fortune on clothes.

In 1506, Leonardo took on another pupil, Count Francesco Melzi, the son of a Lombard aristocrat, who is considered to have been his favourite student.

Despite the recent awareness and admiration of Leonardo as a scientist and inventor, for the better part of four hundred years his fame rested on his achievements as a painter and on a handful of works, either authenticated or attributed to him that have been regarded as among the masterpieces.

Leonardo chose to paint an apocryphal moment of the infancy of Christ when the infant John the Baptist, in protection of an angel, met the Holy Family on the road to Egypt.

Aspects of his work on the studies of anatomy, light and the landscape were assembled for publication by his pupil Francesco Melzi and eventually published as Treatise on Painting by Leonardo da Vinci in France and Italy in 1651 and Germany in 1724, with engravings based upon drawings by the Classical painter Nicholas Poussin.

According to Arasse, the treatise, which in France went into sixty two editions in fifty years, caused Leonardo to be seen as " the precursor of French academic thought on art ".

Leonardo made over 200 pages of drawings and many pages of notes towards a treatise on anatomy.

As an artist, Leonardo closely observed and recorded the effects of age and of human emotion on the physiology, studying in particular the effects of rage.

For much of his life, Leonardo was fascinated by the phenomenon of flight, producing many studies of the flight of birds, including his c. 1505 Codex on the Flight of Birds, as well as plans for several flying machines, including a light hang glider and a machine resembling a helicopter.

Giorgio Vasari, in the enlarged edition of Lives of the Artists, 1568, introduced his chapter on Leonardo da Vinci with the following words:

Image: Leda Melzi Uffizi. jpg | Leda and the Swan copy by Leda Melzi after the lost painting by Leonardo, 1508-1515, Oil on canvas, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy.

Anagrams are also often used in fiction for character aliases, such as Tom Marvolo Riddle = I am Lord Voldemort, Leonardo da vinci = O Draconian Devil, The Mona Lisa

In summing up the painting's impact, author Martha Tedeschi has stated: " Whistler's Mother, Wood's American Gothic, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Edvard Munch's The Scream have all achieved something that most paintings — regardless of their art historical importance, beauty, or monetary value — have not: they communicate a specific meaning almost immediately to almost every viewer.

* 1963 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C.

Francis acquired what would become the nucleus of the Louvre's holdings, his acquisitions including Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.

The High Renaissance collection includes Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Virgin and Child with St. Anne, St. John the Baptist, and Madonna of the Rocks.

Among the works created by Leonardo in the 16th century is the small portrait known as the Mona Lisa or " la Gioconda ", the laughing one.

During World War II, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was briefly hidden in a secret vault behind a wine cellar at Montauban.

Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1503 – 06

* 1503: Leonardo da Vinci begins painting the Mona Lisa and completes it three or four years later.

* January 8 – Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa is exhibited in the United States for the first time, at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C ..

** The Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci Mona Lisa was assessed for insurance purposes at US $ 100 million, before the painting toured the United States for several months.

* Leonardo da Vinci starts work on the Mona Lisa.

* Leonardo da Vinci completes the Mona Lisa.

While Leonardo painted very little during his years in France, he brought with him many of his greatest works, including the Mona Lisa ( known in France as La Joconde ), and these remained in France after his death.

* Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci's painting

The Mona Lisa ( La Gioconda or La Joconde, or Portrait of Lisa Gherardini, wife of Francesco del Giocondo ) is a half-length portrait of a woman by the Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci, which has been acclaimed as " the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world.

The painting's title Mona Lisa stems from a description by Giorgio Vasari: " Leonardo undertook to paint, for Francesco del Giocondo, the portrait of Mona Lisa, his wife ...."

Vasari's account of the Mona Lisa comes from his biography of Leonardo published in 1550, 31 years after the artist's death, and which has long been the best known source of information on the provenance of the work and identity of the sitter.

Leonardo da Vinci began painting the Mona Lisa in 1503 or 1504 in Florence, Italy.

Owing to the expressive synthesis that Leonardo achieved between sitter and landscape it is arguable whether Mona Lisa should be considered as a traditional portrait, for it represents an ideal rather than a real woman.

A charcoal and graphite study of the Mona Lisa attributed to Leonardo is in The Hyde Collection, in Glens Falls, New York.

" Whistler's Mother, Wood's American Gothic, Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa and Edvard Munch's The Scream have all achieved something that most paintings — regardless of their art historical importance, beauty, or monetary value — have not: they communicate a specific meaning almost immediately to almost every viewer.