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The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is an unfinished oil painting by High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1501–1519. [n 1] It depicts Saint Anne, her daughter the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. [1]
Studies of an Infant is a set of eight red chalk drawings on red ochre-prepared paper by Leonardo da Vinci, housed in the Gallerie dell'Accademia in Venice. These are representations of all or part of the body of a very young child, considered to be preparatory studies for the Infant Jesus in the oil painting The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne in the Louvre.
A similar view of a homosexually inclined but chaste Leonardo appears in a famous 1910 paper by Sigmund Freud, Leonardo da Vinci, A Memory of His Childhood, which analysed a memory Leonardo described of having been attacked as a baby by a bird of prey that opened his mouth and "stuck me with the tail inside my lips again and again". Freud ...
Melzi was another one of da Vinci’s pupils, one who played a significant role in his life. He would become the literary executor of all of da Vinci's papers and whose curation of them, led to the preservation of many of them into book form. He also drew a portrait of da Vinci that is among the few confirmed images of him.
Studies of the Fetus in the Womb are two coloured annotated sketches by Leonardo da Vinci made in around 1511. [1] The studies correctly depict the human fetus in its proper position inside a dissected uterus. [2]
The Virgin and the laughing Child, Leonardo da Vinci, from Victoria and Albert Museum, London [1] The Virgin and Laughing Child, also called The Virgin with the laughing Child, or generally abbreviated as another of many depictions of the Virgin and Child, [1] is a statuette originating in Florence and was made circa 1460. [1]
Paris Olympics organizers apologized to anyone who was offended by a tableau that evoked Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper” during the glamorous opening ceremony, but defended the concept ...
The Holy Infants Embracing is a painting by Leonardo da Vinci. It represents the infant Christ embracing his cousin John the Baptist . The subject matter relates to the two paintings of the Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo and numerous other Renaissance works by Raphael and others of the meeting of the two children on the road to Egypt while ...