LOOK at the drapery of that folded gray smock!
Look again, at the fullness and vigor of those hands.
All this over a warm and expansive void of blackness.
Breathtakingly good and marvelous to see.
If I could EVER paint a garment as well as that one gray smock, I’d be the happiest wannabe-illustrator in the Night Class!
**I haven’t even gotten to the “Unsolved Mysteries”.
I leave that part to the real men and women of Science.
Seems more like a skillful homage to Leonardo, but could be partly overpainted. Should be xrayed to check out that possibility. OTOH maybe it already has been.
The only painting of his in the Americas is Ginevra de’ Benci. The National Gallery displays it so that both sides are visible. Leonardo painted some text and vines and such on the back.
Fourteen Century ‘Mystery Science Theater’
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Let’s give Them Something to Talk about!
I forget which painting or statute he did but it had a pinky finger flex and the associated muscles in the forearm corresponded with the flex according to medical experts. His working with bodies of deceased helped him with such details. I read a biography on him and he was genius but could be lazy with patron commissions. I forget how long it took him to paint the Mona Lisa.
I forget which painting or statute he did but it had a pinky finger flex and the associated muscles in the forearm corresponded with the flex according to medical experts. His working with bodies of deceased helped him with such details. I read a biography on him and he was genius but could be lazy with patron commissions. I forget how long it took him to paint the Mona Lisa.
