GROTESQUE HEADS BY LEONARDO DA VINCI
Item Number: 325
Time Left: CLOSED
Value: $150
Online Close: Dec 28, 2008 8:30 PM PST
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Description
- Date of Manufacture: Brand New!
- Dimensions: 11.693x16.535 inches
- Country of Origin: Lithuania, European Union
- Material: True and Full Color Laser Print On Luxurious Quality Paper!
- Description: Be aware of the artistic talent of Leonardo da Vinci!! Get this wonderful work of art Five Grotesque Heads, the original of which was painted in 1490. Pen and ink on paper. Now this painting can be found in Windsor Castle, Windsor, UK. Leonardo DA VINCI (b. 1452, Vinci, Republic of Florence [now in Italy]--d. May 2, 1519, Cloux, Fr.), Italian painter, draftsman, sculptor, architect, and engineer whose genius, perhaps more than that of any other figure, epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal. His Last Supper (1495-97) and Mona Lisa (1503-06) are among the most widely popular and influential paintings of the Renaissance. His notebooks reveal a spirit of scientific inquiry and a mechanical inventiveness that were centuries ahead of his time. There has never been an artist who was more fittingly, and without qualification, described as a genius. Like Shakespeare, Leonardo came from an insignificant background and rose to universal acclaim. Leonardo was the illegitimate son of a local lawyer in the small town of Vinci in the Tuscan region. His father acknowledged him and paid for his training, but we may wonder whether the strangely self-sufficient tone of Leonardo‘s mind was not perhaps affected by his early ambiguity of status. The definitive polymath, he had almost too many gifts, including superlative male beauty, a splendid singing voice, magnificent physique, mathematical excellence, scientific daring... the list is endless. This overabundance of talents caused him to treat his artistry lightly, seldom finishing a picture, and sometimes making rash technical experiments.
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