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Upon viewing the sketch’s dynamic line work and refinement, she immediately suspected that it might be not just a da Vinci, but a study for the actual Salvator Mundi.
Nov 24, 2020 · A leading expert on the works of Leonardo da Vinci thinks she has found a new drawing by the Renaissance master. The portrait, which was found by a collector in Lecco, Italy, shows a serene Christ.
Nov 25, 2020 · Italian scholar Annalisa Di Maria working with the UNESCO Centre in Florence has attributed a drawing, stored away in a vault for decades, to da Vinci. The drawing, from a private collector in Lecco, depicts Jesus Christ in three-quarter profile.
The Virgin of the Rocks is a complex and mysterious painting which has intrigued people for centuries. For an artist who notoriously left works unfinished and from whom even fewer survive, this is a rare example of one of his large-scale paintings.
In his illustration of Vitruvian Man (1490), Leonardo da Vinci took up the ideas of Marcus Vitruvius Pollio on the ideal proportions of the human body and mixed geometry with them by drawing a man inscribed in a circle and a square, perfect geometric shapes respecting the ratio of the golden ratio.
- Annalisa Di Maria
Dec 24, 2015 · While the gesture of the Virgin in this Holy Family is inspired by the Virgin of the Rocks at the Musée du Louvre, the postures of the children, a motif never represented by the master, are based on his numerous drawings showing them embracing an animal.
The Study for the Virgin's Right Arm is a drawing by the Florentine painter Leonardo da Vinci that is kept at Windsor Castle in the United Kingdom. It is drawn in charcoal or black stone, grey chalk, ink, and white gouache highlights on red-tinted paper.
