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LEONARDO da Vinci: Head of Christ

🖼 Head of Christ, -
Pencil, black chalk, paste, and watercolour
562 × 434 cm
Strasbourg, France

Soft charcoal renders a serene face with idealized features and gentle downward gaze, capturing profound spiritual contemplation. Leonardo's study of human emotion and divine beauty influenced centuries of religious portraiture and remains a masterwork of Renaissance humanism.

The story of art
The story of art
E. H. Gombrich
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