High Renaissance · c. 1478
Leonardo da Vinci 1452–1519
National Gallery of Art · Washington
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Around 1478, Leonardo da Vinci painted this young Florentine woman on poplar wood. He was barely twenty-six, already dissolving light into shadow until skin seems to breathe. Her expression holds not charm but something rarer: complete, almost unsettling self-possession.
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