![Wreath of Laurel, Palm, and Juniper with a Scroll inscribed Virtutem Forma Decorat [reverse], Leonardo da Vinci, Public domain](https://api.nga.gov/iiif/ff62e8d0-45c4-498f-ad36-6358de827e04/full/!1600,1600/0/default.jpg)
Wreath of Laurel, Palm, and Juniper with a Scroll inscribed Virtutem Forma Decorat [reverse]
Leonardo da Vinci · c. 1474/1478 · tempera on panel
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About this picture
Wreath of Laurel, Palm, and Juniper with a Scroll inscribed Virtutem Forma Decorat [reverse] is a public-domain painting by Leonardo da Vinci, dated c. 1474/1478. Tempera on panel. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Wreath of Laurel, Palm, and Juniper with a Scroll inscribed Virtutem Forma Decorat [reverse]” (c. 1474/1478) 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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