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How from age to age the art of painting continually declines and deteriorates when painters have no other standard than work already done.
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Original works by Leonardo da Vinci available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Museums and Public Art Galleries:
 Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany
Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
Fitzwilliam Museum PHAROS Website, Cambridge, UK
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Madonna and Child (The Litta Madonna), 1490-91
The Madonna and Child (The Benois Madonna), 1478
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Caricature of a Man with Bushy Hair, 1495
Studies for the Christ Child with a Lamb, 1503
Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Flash presentation: A Closer Look at the Mona Lisa
Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Drapery for a Seated Figure, 1470
Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Adoration of the Magi, pen and ink drawing, 1481
Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Portrait of Lisa Gherardini (Mona Lisa or La Gioconda), 1503-06
Leonardo da Vinci in the Louvre Museum Database, Paris (only available in French)
Leonardo da Vinci at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Studies for the Nativity, 1482-92
A Bear Walking, ca.1490
Head of the Virgin, drawing, 1507-13
Leonardo da Vinci at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
Leonardo da Vinci, Master Draftsman
Metropolitan Museum of Art Timetable of Art History, New York City
A variety of artworks, with biographical info
Museo di Vinci, Italy
The museum of Leonardo's home town. The main portion of the collection appears to consist of a variety of models of Leonardo's inventions.
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas 
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National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh
Leonardo da Vinci at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
6 works by Leonardo da Vinci
National Gallery, London, UK
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Many drawings online
Vatican Museums, Vatican City
St Jerome
American Museum of Natural History, New York City
Leonardo's Codex Leicester: A Masterpiece of Science
Art Fund for UK Museums
A Rider on a Rearing Horse, 1481-83
The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist, ca.1499-1500
Studies of the Paw of a Dog or Wolf, 1490
Ashmolean Museum at the University of Oxford, UK
Christ Church College Picture Gallery, Oxford, UK
A Grotesque Head, chalk drawing
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
2 works by or related to the artist
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts NEW!
Hyde Collection Art Museum, Glens Falls, New York
Cartoon for the Mona Lisa, ca.1503
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, France (in French) 
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Museum of Science, Boston
Leonardo da Vinci: Scientist, Inventor, Artist
National Gallery of Australia
Study for the head of Christ for The Last Supper, ca.1495
National Museum of Science and Technology, Milan
Exhibit showing many of Leonardo's inventions and manuscripts
Pierpont Morgan Library, New York City
Two Designs for Machines
Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan (in Italian)
Ritratto di musico
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
The Albertina, Vienna (in German)
2 drawings online
The British Museum, London, UK NEW!
Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany (mostly in German) NEW!
Figurenstudien zur "Anbetung der Könige", drawing
Professional Tools:
Artprice
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
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Pictures from Image Archives:
Art Renewal Center
Artchive
Artonline
CGFA
Insecula
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
La Madonna Litta
Rasiel's Wallpapers
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Mona Lisa
Web Gallery of Art
WebMuseum 
Wikimedia Commons Image Database
1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian)
The Drawings of Leonardo
1200 Years of Italian Sculpture (mostly in Italian)
The Complete Paintings of Leonardo
Aiwaz Panopticon NEW!
Gallery of 12 drawings
Aiwaz Panopticon NEW!
Gallery of 18 paintings
Aiwaz Panopticon NEW!
Scroll down for 3 galleries of works influencing or influenced by Leonardop's Mona Lisa
Archker's Fantasy Art Gallery
Artyzm
California State University WorldImages Database
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
ImageNETion
Lady with an Ermine
Jetset Image Galleries
Olga's Gallery
USC Annenberg School for Communication
USC Annenberg School for Communication
Web Sites About the Artist:
Leonardo da Vinci: Man of Both Worlds
Leonardo's Horse
Home page of the group behind the enormous horse sculpture which Leonardo designed but was never able to complete. The statue now stands in Milan.
The Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci
Universal Leonardo
Other Web Sites:
Blue.fr (in French)
(note: site crashes my version of Internet Explorer)
FBI Art Theft Program
Madonna of the Yarnwinder, stolen from Drumlanrig Castle in Scotland
Haltadefinizione by HAL9000
Extremely high resolution reproduction of Leonardo's fresco The Last Supper
Jacques-Edouard Berger Foundation
PBS
The story behind the theft of the Mona Lisa in 1911
Rocbo Culture (in French)
Geometric analysis of 2 works by Leonardo
The BBC
"Unseen Da Vinci works go on show" (A Virgin on the Rocks and a newly attributed Mary Magdalene)
The British Library, London, UK
View Leonardo's sketchbook
The Modernist Journals Project NEW!
The Sydney Morning Herald NEW!
Article with a good reproduction of a painting of Mary Magdalene, now attributed to Leonardo
Welcome to Tuscany
Battle of Anghiari (scroll down)
Articles:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Leonardo da Vinci
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 75-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Artnet Magazine
Half-length of an Apostle
ARTnews
"A Work in Progress"
ArtWatch International
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Discussion of the Universal Leonardo Project, which intends to oversee a scientific analysis of all of Leonardo's known paintings
ArtWatch International
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Restoration of Leonardo's Adoration of the Magi
ArtWatch International
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Uffizi's cleaning of Leonardo da Vinci's The Baptism of Christ
Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists
Biography of the artist. Detailed, but Vasari's anecdotes are sometimes inaccurate.
International Herald Tribune
"Shock Waves of Leonardo's Last Supper," article by Roderick Conway Morris
PBS
"Leonardo's Horse"
The Guardian Newspaper, UK
A Grotesque Head, 1504
The New York Observer
Article by Hilton Kramer: Leonardo Da Vinci Left Breathtaking Painting Incomplete
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