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LEONARDO da Vinci: Storm over a landscape

🖼 Storm over a landscape, c. 1500
Red chalk on paper
200 × 150 cm
Windsor, United Kingdom

Turbulent skies dominate this landscape study, rendered in delicate ink with swirling clouds and diagonal rain streaks creating dynamic movement. Leonardo's meteorological observations revolutionized artistic depiction of nature, blending scientific curiosity with emotional intensity in early Renaissance visualization.

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