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Leonardo da Vinci’s 'Virgin of the Rocks': Treatment, Technique and Display

Read an article from the National Gallery Technical Bulletin, by Larry Keith, Ashok Roy, Rachel Morrison and Peter Schade

Leonardo da Vinci’s 'Virgin of the Rocks': Treatment, Technique and Display

Read an article from the National Gallery Technical Bulletin, by Larry Keith, Ashok Roy, Rachel Morrison and Peter Schade

Andrea del Verrocchio

about 1435 - 1488

Piero di Cosimo

Bernardino Luini

about 1480 - 1532

Pietro Perugino

living 1469; died 1523

Aerial perspective

Leonardo da Vinci, among others, observed that as a landscape recedes from the viewer its colours and tones alter due to the nature of the atmosphere. The pictorial equivalent of this phenomenon is called aerial or atmospheric perspective. This ef...

Sfumato is the 'smoky' quality which blurs contours so that figures emerge from a dark background by means of gradual tonal modulations without any harsh outlines. Leonardo da Vinci advised painting 'without lines' in his uncompleted treatise on p...

This is an Italian term which literally means 'light-dark'. In paintings the description refers to clear tonal contrasts which are often used to suggest the volume and modelling of the subjects depicted. Artists who are famed for the use of chiar...

Donato Bramante

The Italian architect Donato Bramante was born in Urbino in about 1444. He moved to Milan shortly after 1480, where he was in the circle of artists in the court of Ludovico il Moro Sforza which included Leonardo da Vinci. After the French invasio...