Barely twenty survive and half of them start an argument. Two hang in the same museum; one sits in a vault nobody can visit.
1Mona LisaThe portrait of Lisa Gherardini that Leonardo kept and reworked for the rest of his life.
2The Last SupperThe refectory mural in Milan, painted in a tempera technique that began flaking within Leonardo's lifetime.
3Lady with an ErmineThe portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, mistress of Ludovico Sforza, now in Kraków.
4Salvator MundiThe blessing Christ that sold for 450.3 million dollars in 2017 and whose attribution is still disputed.
5Virgin of the RocksTwo versions exist, one in the Louvre and one in London, after a decades-long payment dispute.
6The Virgin and Child with St AnneThree generations built into one pyramid of bodies, left not quite finished.
7St John the BaptistLeonardo's last painting: a figure emerging from darkness with one finger raised.
8Ginevra de' BenciAn early Florentine portrait and the only Leonardo painting in the Americas.
9The Adoration of the MagiAbandoned in 1482 at the brown underpainting stage and never resumed.
10La Belle FerronnièreA Milanese court portrait in the Louvre whose sitter has never been settled.
11St Jerome in the WildernessA monochrome saint in the Vatican, laid in and abandoned.
12The Baptism of ChristVerrocchio's panel with an angel by the young Leonardo, said to have shamed his teacher.
13The MusicianA small Milanese portrait in the Ambrosiana, and Leonardo's only surviving male portrait.
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Fewer than twenty-five major works survive, and one of them exists in two versions because of a payment dispute lasting decades: https://youpick.best/articles/leonardo-da-vinci-ranked-many-ways
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