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The Baptism of Christ is an oil-on-panel painting finished around 1475 in the studio of the Italian Renaissance painter Andrea del Verrocchio and generally ascribed to him and his pupil Leonardo da Vinci. Some art historians discern the hands of other members of Verrocchio's workshop in the painting as well.
Agostino Vespucci was a Florentine chancellery official, clerk, and assistant to Niccolò Machiavelli, among others. [3] He is most well known for helping to confirm the subject of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa as Lisa del Giocondo, [4] and is also the author of a number of surviving letters and manuscripts.
In both versions of the composition (the Louvre painting and the London cartoon) it is hard to discern whether Saint Anne is a full generation older than Mary. Erich Neumann rebutted this essay in the first essay in Art and the Creative Unconscious (1959), Leonardo da Vinci and the Mother Archetype.
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 ...
The figure of Pomona in Francesco Melzi's painting, Vertumnus and Pomona, that is held in the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, is based on that of the Virgin in this cartoon by Leonardo. The similarity may be seen most distinctively in the head. Melzi was another one of da Vinci’s pupils, one who played a significant role in his life.
Amerigo Vespucci (/ v ɛ ˈ s p uː tʃ i / vesp-OO-chee, [1] Italian: [ameˈriːɡo veˈsputtʃi]; 9 March 1454 – 22 February 1512) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Florence for whom "America" is named.
Da Vinci's painting depicts the moment when Jesus Christ declared that an apostle would betray him. The scene during Friday's ceremony featured DJ and producer Barbara Butch — an LGBTQ+ icon ...
The painting of The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne was Leonardo da Vinci's first work to depict the subject. [ 6 ] This theme enters into the context of the Marian cult, [ 7 ] in particular to justify the dogma of the Immaculate Conception , [ 7 ] [ 8 ] according to which Mary , receiving in anticipation the fruits of the resurrection of her ...