Shirley Smith
Renaissance Art Historian
Tel. +44 (0)1728 638 271
Email. shirleypamsmith@gmail.com
Address.
The Garden House, Bruisyard,
Saxmundham, Suffolk, IP17 2ED
Leonardo's Women
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Leonardo’s images of women, whether Madonnas, mistresses or wealthy members of society are amongst the most renowned works of art of the Italian Renaissance.
Leonardo Da Vinci Madonna with a Flower c.1478
Image source: Web Gallery of Art
This lecture, designed to celebrate the 500th anniversary of his death, will study his revolutionary rendering of the female figure and how he harnessed the interplay of light and shadow to produce images that combine the spiritual with the sensual, the mystical with the mysterious.
Leonardo Da Vinci Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani (Lady with an Ermine) 1483-90
Image source: Web Gallery of Art