Albas Leonardo da Vinci

Coming from Vinci, a Tuscan village in Central Italy, Leonardo was a painter, sculptor, engineer, architect, inventor and writer, the prototype of the Renaissance man. In painting and sculpture, he was distinguished for the ingenious innovations of light and shadow, nuance, perspective, expressiveness and for scientific precision. Among his paintings, Mona Lisa stands out (located in the Louvre Museum, Paris). is a relatively small portrait, but known for the enigmatic smile, where Da Vinci painted the wife of Francesco del Gioconda, therefore this painting is also known as Gioconda.