Study For The Madonna Of The Cat
''Study for the Madonna of the Cat'' is a set of two drawings by Leonardo da Vinci on both sides (front and back) of a sheet of paper 13 centimeters high and 9.4 centimeters wide. The two drawings were made in pen and brown ink, on a preparatory drawing in stylus, with a brown Ink wash painting, wash on the back. This is one of the six works of Leonardo da Vinci showing the Madonna (art), Virgin and Christ Child, Child playing with a cat or carrying it. A mirror symmetry between the drawings of the two faces is visible by transparency. The ''Study for the Madonna of the Cat'' is currently held at the British Museum in London under inventory number 1856,0621.1. The creative and scientific processes underlying the drawing ''Madonna of the Cat'' have been discussed by many art historians, including Kenneth Clark, Martin Kemp (art historian), Martin Kemp, Carmen Bambach and Larry Feinberg. Related drawings by Leonardo Leonardo da Vinci, Madonna col Bambino che carezza un gattino ...
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci (15 April 14522 May 1519) was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, Drawing, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor, and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he also became known for #Journals and notes, his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and paleontology. Leonardo is widely regarded to have been a genius who epitomized the Renaissance humanism, Renaissance humanist ideal, and his List of works by Leonardo da Vinci, collective works comprise a contribution to later generations of artists matched only by that of his younger contemporary, Michelangelo. Born Legitimacy (family law), out of wedlock to a successful Civil law notary, notary and a lower-class woman in, or near, Vinci, Tuscany, Vinci, he was educated in Florence by the Italian painter and sculptor ...
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