Leonardo da Vinci
34 pieces 7 collections Florence and Milan, Italy (later Rome and Amboise, France)
Painter, engineer and restless note-taker from Vinci, near Florence. He finished only a handful of paintings, but filled thousands of notebook pages with bodies, water, birds, machines, plants and faces, annotated right-to-left in mirror script. He worked for patrons in Florence, Milan and Rome and spent his last years in France as the king's guest. The pieces here are in the public domain, from museums that share their collections openly — the Louvre, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Royal Collection and others.
