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3. Who knew Da Vinci loved painting flowers?!

Reply to appalachiablue (Reply #2)

Sun Nov 24, 2019, 12:47 AM

Nov 2019

The entire lower right quadrant of that painting was flowers. It’s too deteriorated to restore.

Although some people think he didn’t paint that because he didn’t use his soft blending style between light and shadow on the skin tones.

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Decoding Da Vinci, Mona Lisa, PBS NOVA [View all] appalachiablue Nov 2019 OP

I watched this show lunatica Nov 2019 #1

The conservators who work on these masterpieces have great appalachiablue Nov 2019 #2

Who knew Da Vinci loved painting flowers?! lunatica Nov 2019 #3

The Mona Lisa is from c. 1503 and look how different the styles appalachiablue Nov 2019 #4

She looks like Mona Lisa's deceased sister. lunatica Nov 2019 #5

Yes 'creative spark' is a real distinction. The Ginevra almost looks appalachiablue Nov 2019 #6

Well you saw it so that's very nice indeed. lunatica Nov 2019 #7

His dwgs are excellent. Here's a brief video with Rick Steves of the appalachiablue Nov 2019 #8

What an incredible and lovely town! lunatica Nov 2019 #9

Here's the Clos Luce website noting the workshop/study rooms appalachiablue Nov 2019 #10

Thank you so much! lunatica Nov 2019 #11