Virgin of the Rocks
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The Virgin of the Rocks, 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 identica
Angel by an unknown painter, perhaps Bernardino Luini or Francesco Napoletano
Angel probably by Ambrogio de Predis.
The Tête d'enfant de trois quarts à droite is a silverpoint drawing on paper by the Florentine painter Leonardo da Vinci. It belongs to the Codex Vallardi and is preserved at the Department of Graphic
The Tête d'enfant de trois-quarts à droite is attributed to Leonardo da Vinci on the basis of technical and stylistic comparisons with this Tête de femme presque de profil (Head of a woman, almost in profile ), which dates from the early 1490s (Paris, Département des arts graphiques du musée du Louvre, INV 2376, Recto).
Study for the head of the angel Uriel (circa 1483, Turin, Royal Library, inv. 15572 DC).
Leonardo da Vinci's master, Verrocchio, certainly passed on to him a taste for depicting children (Andrea del Verrocchio, c. 1480, Child's head and shoulders facing right, Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum, inv. no. 2930).