This version of the Mona Lisa (Louvre) was painted by one of Leonardo’s pupils. The fact that each pentimento, or change, in Leonardo’s original (to the bust, outline of the veil and position of the f [+]
With the exception of the landscape, Northern European in inspiration, the work is a reproduction on a smaller scale of an intermediate state in the execution of Leonardo da Vinci’s Saint Anne, possib [+]
Leonardo made three cartoons (full-scale drawings) with different ideas for the composition of his Saint Anne. This work is one of the few preserved testimonies to the second, produced by the master b [+]