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The works are often known as the Louvre Virgin of the Rocks and London Virgin of the Rocks respectively. The paintings are both nearly 2 metres (over 6 feet) high and are painted in oils. Both were originally painted on wooden panels, but the Louvre version has been transferred to canvas. [1]
Original – The Virgin of the Rocks (about 1491/2–99 and 1506–08); This is the second version of this piece undertaken by da Vinci, and was a commission from the Milanese Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception for their oratory; this was to be the central panel of three above a new altar.
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Researchers agree that the two panels originated in Leonardo da Vinci's studio: [8] indeed, they resemble the style used by the master in the London version of the central panel of the retable (the Virgin of the Rocks); [8] moreover, the three panels of the altarpiece demonstrate similar technical processes - the use of fingers, for example, to finish the contours of the figures - which, in ...
The Italian polymath Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was the founding figure of the High Renaissance, and exhibited enormous influence on subsequent artists.Only around eight major works—The Adoration of the Magi, Saint Jerome in the Wilderness, the Louvre Virgin of the Rocks, The Last Supper, the ceiling of the Sala delle Asse, The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist ...
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This may explain why, in the first version of the Virgin of the Rocks, Leonardo da Vinci took the liberty of drawing inspiration from a Gnostic and Christian mystical work entitled the Apocalypsis nova (preserved in the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan), authored by Amadeus of Portugal (born João de Menezes da Silva, c.1420-1482 ) - a Portuguese ...