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LEONARDO da Vinci: Profile of a man and study of two riders

🖼 Profile of a man and study of two riders, 1490 and c. 1504
Pen, ink, red chalk on paper
279 × 223 cm
Venice, Italy

Delicate silverpoint captures a man's profile beside two dynamic equestrian studies, blending portraiture with anatomical investigation. Leonardo's layered composition reveals his simultaneous interests in human character, animal movement, and compositional balance during the High Renaissance.

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E. H. Gombrich
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