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Malgré son dédain, Léonard étudie en détail les versions de l’Adoration peintes par Botticelli et adopte certaines de ses idées23. Il en réalise néanmoins une qui, au contraire de celles de son confrère, respire l’énergie, l’émotion, l’agitation et le désordre. Son concept, inspiré des fêtes et des spectacles publics, consiste à produire un vortex

With the help of the writings of Alberti and the development of mathematical perspective, the social and intellectual standing of painters was rising, and a few were becoming sought-after names.

He probably had more of a hand in the Lansdowne, and saw it to completion, given that it has the more Leonardesque landscape and lustrous curls. At least five of the surviving versions of the painting include the little scene of Joseph building the baby walker. This indicates that these versions were being painted in Leonardo’s studio before he dec

While working as a master painter in Verrocchio’s shop during his late teens and early twenties, Leonardo contributed elements to two paintings: he was responsible for the scampering dog and shiny fish in Tobias and the Angel (fig. 8) and for the angel on the far left in the Baptism of Christ.