Portrait of a Musician
Leonardo da Vinci · 1485
Why it's great
A young man with curly hair holds a piece of music and looks over his shoulder as though he has been interrupted. Leonardo da Vinci painted it in about 1485, and this is the only portrait of a man by Leonardo that we know of.
Where to see it
📍 Pinacoteca AmbrosianaMilan, Italy
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Leonardo da Vinci was an Italian painter, inventor and scientist, born in 1452. He painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper, and filled thousands of notebook pages with drawings of flying machines, anatomy, water and plants. He died in France in 1519.
