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LEONARDO da Vinci: Female head (La Scapigliata)

🖼 Female head (La Scapigliata), c. 1508
Oil on panel
27 × 21 cm
Parma, Italy

Soft sfumato modeling renders a woman's delicate features and tousled hair with unprecedented psychological depth. Leonardo's unfinished sketch revolutionized portraiture by capturing fleeting emotion and inner contemplation rather than formal likeness.

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