40 Most Famous Leonardo Da Vinci Paintings and Drawings Leonardo Da Vinci Leonardo Da Vinci Paintings and Drawings: Leonardo Da Vinci is an Italian artist and sculptor. He is quite famous for "The Monolisa" and "The Last Supper" paintings. Currently they are on display in some of the prominent museums. He is broadly thought to be one of the best painters ever and maybe the most differently skilled individual ever to have lived. Eventhough he was such a great artist, only fifteen or so DaVinci paintings survive, many of his paintings have been lost during the world war times. Leonardo Da Vinci was born in the year 1452 at Italy. Leonardo Da Vinci had interest in science, maths and music apart from paintings. In fact he was the one to decipher that the sky is blue because of prisms, water particles and sunlight and that's why we don't see them in any other color....