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Study of a Madonna [verso]
Leonardo da Vinci · probably 1470/1480 · black chalk on laid paper
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About this picture
Study of a Madonna [verso] is a public-domain drawing by Leonardo da Vinci, dated probably 1470/1480. Black chalk on laid paper. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Study of a Madonna [verso]” (probably 1470/1480) 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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