Leonardo da Vinci - Burlington House Cartoon
The only large scale drawing still in existence by the great man.
Over the years, this work has been discoloured, damaged, and even shot at1!
Yet still, it has a gravitas and sense of grace which seems, if anything, even more heightened by it’s unfinished state.
Truly, it is like looking at Leonardo’s fingerprints.
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