The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is Leonardo\u2019s last great composition, a work he carried with him for almost two decades and never entirely finished. Three generations appear in it: Saint Anne, her daughter Mary, and the Christ Child. Our hand-painted reproduction on canvas preserves the soft modelling of the faces and the bluish landscape of the original, painted in oil on canvas.<\/p>\n
Leonardo worked on the composition between 1501 and 1519 \u2013 that is, until his death. The painting remained unfinished: in places the underdrawing is clearly visible, elsewhere the paint layers are barely laid in. That is exactly what makes it precious, because it shows how the master built a picture. The National Gallery in London also holds the so-called Burlington House Cartoon, a large preparatory drawing in which Leonardo worked out how to bind the three figures into a single natural knot of bodies. The original is in the Louvre in Paris (inv. 776), painted in oil on a wooden panel, and measures 168.4 \u00d7 130 cm.<\/p>\n
Saint Anne is seated; Mary sits in her lap and leans towards her son, who is embracing a lamb. The lamb is not decoration: it is the Lamb of God, a sign of the Passion, and Mary\u2019s gesture \u2013 as though gently drawing him away \u2013 gives the scene a quiet tension. All three figures are bound into a single spiralling movement that Leonardo searched for over years. Behind them a bluish mountain landscape dissolves into air in the distance; this aerial perspective is a Leonardo speciality.<\/p>\n
The painting is also famous because Sigmund Freud built an interpretation on it: in the folds of Mary\u2019s robe he saw the outline of a vulture and tied it to a childhood memory of Leonardo\u2019s. The reading rested on an error \u2013 the German translation had turned Leonardo\u2019s nibbio<\/em>, that is a kite, into a vulture. The anecdote shows nicely how strongly this calm, almost smiling composition invites reading between the lines.<\/p>\n Every reproduction of The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is entirely hand-painted in oil on canvas \u2013 not a print, but a real painting created for you by an experienced artist. It is available in eight sizes, stretched on a wooden frame on request and in an elegant frame from our 3D range. The restrained palette, dominated by blue and golden brown, sits well in a living room or bedroom.<\/p>\n The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne \u2013 three generations in one painting The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is Leonardo\u2019s last great composition, a work he carried with him for almost two decades and never entirely finished. Three generations appear in it: Saint Anne, her daughter Mary, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":127817,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[9810],"product_tag":[9831,9870,9862,9863],"class_list":["post-127823","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-leonardo-da-vinci","product_tag-da-vinci-en","product_tag-painter","product_tag-reproduction-en","product_tag-reproductions","pa_dimenzija-120-x-160-cm","pa_dimenzija-150-x-200-cm","pa_dimenzija-40-x-55-cm","pa_dimenzija-50-x-70-cm","pa_dimenzija-60-x-80-cm","pa_dimenzija-70-x-110-cm","pa_dimenzija-80-x-110-cm","pa_dimenzija-90-x-120-cm","pa_oblika-vertical","pa_okvir-without-frame","pa_podokvir-without","pa_podokvir-yes","first","onbackorder","purchasable","product-type-variable","has-default-attributes"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nA hand-painted reproduction for your home<\/h3>\n
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