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LEONARDO da Vinci: Landscape near Pisa

🖼 Landscape near Pisa, 1502-03
Red chalk on paper
211 × 150 cm
Madrid, Spain

Soft atmospheric perspective recedes toward distant hills rendered in cool blues and grays, with foreground vegetation sketched in delicate ink. This early landscape study reveals Leonardo's scientific approach to nature, documenting Tuscan topography while pioneering atmospheric depth techniques that influenced Renaissance art.

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E. H. Gombrich
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