The historic gallery of portraits and paintings; or, Biographical review: (1807)
London, Vernor, Hood, and Sharpe · leaf 385
at in the present instance the hardness ofmanner proceeds from tlie softness hereon being loogeneral; the light being every where equally lost in theground or its shadow, for this is not expressing the trueeffect of flesh, the light of which is sometimes losingitself in the ground, and sometimes… … w. Zo7idon,,u THE VIRGIN, SAINT ANNE, AND THEINFANT JESUS. LEONARDO DA VINCI. The Virgin is seen seated in the lap of St. Anne, andbends forward to take the infant Jesus in her arms, whois playing with a lamb. It is somewhat singular that Leonardo should haveplaced a female of the age apparently of…
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