FILE: 03_The Virgin of the Rocks_Leonardo.jpg

TITLE: PAINTING - Virgin of the Rocks - HIGH ITALIAN RENAISSANCE

DESCRIPTION: by LEONARDO da Vinci. Duke of Milan hired Leonardo to paint this. See triangular figural form in Virgin, Christ & John the Baptist. With the hand motions it expands into a 3 dimensional pyramidal form. Leonardo experimenting w/ new kind of shadow = gradual shadow.