
Leonardo is renowned primarily as a painter. The
Mona Lisa is the most famous of his works and the most parodied portrait,
and
The Last Supper is the most reproduced religious painting of all time.
His drawing of the
Vitruvian Manis also regarded as a cultural icon being reproduced on items as varied as the euro coin, textbooks, and T-shirts. His painting
Salvator Mundi sold for $450.3 million at a Christie's auction in New York on 15 November 2017, the highest price ever paid for a work of ar