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The Virgin of the Rocks (Italian: Vergine delle rocce), sometimes the Madonna of the Rocks, is the name of two paintings by the Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, of the same subject, with a composition which is identical except for several significant details.
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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 ...
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 Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci at the National Gallery, London. The work's patron is clearly identified: the Immaculate Conception Brotherhood, a lay confraternity in Milan, attached to the church of San Francesco Maggiore (Italian: San Fransesco Grande).
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