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LEONARDO da Vinci: Study of St Anne, Mary, the Christ Child and the young St John

🖼 Study of St Anne, Mary, the Christ Child and the young St John, 1501-06
Lead pencil, pen and ink on paper
Venice, Italy

Interlocking figures spiral in tender arrangement—St. Anne, Mary, Christ Child, and young John rendered through Leonardo's masterful charcoal and chalk. This preparatory study epitomizes Renaissance ideals of divine grace and human intimacy, revealing the artist's compositional genius and anatomical precision.

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E. H. Gombrich
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