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LEONARDO da Vinci: Deluge over a city

🖼 Deluge over a city, 1517-18
Black chalk on paper
163 × 210 cm
Windsor, United Kingdom

Torrential waters engulf a city in chaotic perspective, rendered through dynamic pen strokes and swirling compositional lines. Leonardo's apocalyptic vision demonstrates his obsession with natural forces and engineering, merging scientific observation with imaginative catastrophe.

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E. H. Gombrich
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