Art & Culture

“The Annunciation” is one of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous works, along with the “Mona Lisa“, the “Lady with an Ermine” or the “Last Supper“. It is an oil and tempera painting on a 98×217 cm panel, a youthful masterpiece by Leonardo, dated between 1472 and 1475 and kept in the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.

In 1502 Leonardo da Vinci spent six months of his life in Romagna, at the court of Cesare Borgia, known as “Il Valentino”. Cesare Borgia had recently conquered the Duchy of Romagna, with the support of Pope Alexander VI and the King of France Louis XII. Leonardo da Vinci was already known in Milan, and

The painting Dama con l’ermellino, or Lady with an Ermine, by Leonardo da Vinci is one of the great pictorial masterpieces of the Genius and a symbol of the extraordinary artistic level reached by Leonardo during his first stay in Milan, between 1482 and 1499. The painting is oil on panel (about 54×40 cm) and

A character emblematic of – but not limited to – Italian culture, Leonardo da Vinci is the indisputable genius of the Renaissance period. He was born in 1452 in Anchiano, a fraction of the municipality of Vinci, where he lived and spent his first 30 years experimenting with his works. There are many curiosities about

Leonardo the painter has created works that are milestones in the history of Italian and world art; a production that includes titles known all over the world, full of charm, mysteries, new techniques and amazing studies. The places and characters painted by Leonardo belong to all of us, they are familiar and surprising every time.

Fortunately for us, Leonardo used to write, draw and write down every idea and intuition in a notebook. It is thanks to all of these pages and writings that today we understand the breadth of his work, the versatility of his genius and the contemporaneity of his thought. The largest and most important collection of

The word Leonardo immediately reminds one of the word Genius, because it is the adjective that best summarizes his multifaceted talents and his attitude of being a man projected into the future: so much so that even today he is considered an icon and a symbol of innovation, creativity and refined intelligence. Leonardo is the

With three events focused on the theme “Leonardo between Medicine, Art and Science”, Leonardo da Vinci was celebrated in Argentina with the “IN-GENIO Italiano” program, organized by the Italian Embassy in Buenos Aires in November. For the occasion, Cantine Leonardo da Vinci accompanied the institutional occasions with a selection of representative labels from the collections

A corkscrew in the form of the Vitruvian man, a catapult in the shape of a bottle opener, flying machines, screw spirals and other gadgets, creations by the Genius Leonardo, on the one hand, and by the imagination of the illustrator Gianluca Biscalchin, on the other, who created a series of drawings dedicated to Leonardo