Category: Leonardo

A US First: Leonardo’s Ingenious Drawings Visit Washington

Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael created the epitome of Renaissance art. Most of us know Leonardo’s artistic brilliance through his best-known paintings, the “Mona Lisa” and “The Last Supper,” yet Leonardo’s art is one tiny facet of his legendary genius. Some may be surprised to learn that he spent many years as an engineer,…


Globetrotting Artist Makes Incredible Hand-Drawn Journals That Look Like Leonardo Da Vinci’s Notebooks

The meticulously hand-drawn notebooks of José Naranja call to mind the rusticated, penned scribings and illustrations of Leonardo da Vinci. Detailed sketches, diagrams, and hand-penned cursive writing fill the journals of Naranja—who is also an airplane engineer, not unlike that Renaissance inventor-artist. Consciously or unconsciously, Naranja follows in the footsteps of that master draftsman. Or it…


Film Review: ‘The Lost Leonardo,’ A Divine Painting Lost to an Opaque Art World

PG-13 | 1h 40min | Documentary | 20 August 2021 “The great design of art is to restore the decays that happened to human nature by the Fall, by restoring order,” English critic John Dennis wrote in 1704.   Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” painting, by its very title—Latin for “Savior of the World”—fulfills Dennis’s description…


Artist Sculpts Stunning Leonardo-esque Horse out of Twisted Driftwood From the Ocean

Washington artist Jeffro Uitto gathers the medium for his artwork on the beaches near his home during the winter months. It can take years collecting the gnarly, twisted driftwood which comprises his expressive animal sculptures in order to amass enough for what will become one of his pieces. The artist from Tokeland, the small coastal…