Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)
Leonardo da Vinci · 1496 · Pen and brown ink (recto and verso)
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Marked public domain by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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About this picture
Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso) is a public-domain drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, dated 1496. Pen and brown ink (recto and verso). The file comes from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
“Allegory on the Fidelity of the Lizard (recto); Design for a Stage Setting (verso)” (1496) belongs with Leonardo’s notebooks more than with his few paintings: a figure, a plant, water, or a machine, drawn so the idea stays visible.
About the artist
Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) was a Florentine painter whose notebooks mix figure studies, machines, water, and plants. Few paintings survive; the drawings are where most of the thinking is visible.
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