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LEONARDO da Vinci: Ceiling decoration

🖼 Ceiling decoration, 1496-98
Fresco and tempera
Milan, Italy

Intertwining branches and roots create an intricate canopy across the vault, rendered in soft perspective with illusionistic depth. Leonardo's botanical precision and architectural vision merged to transform the ceiling into living geometry, pioneering decorative schemes that dissolve boundaries between nature and built space.

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