Landscape
The landscape in Madonna of the Yarnwinder has been matched to a specific location, as a fly-over view of the Adda river valley as it runs from Lecco to Vaprio, an area familiar to Leonardo and mapped by him. This landscape-to-map match and three others by Leonardo are described in a peer-reviewed article.
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Famous quotes containing the word landscape:
“I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“The horizon is more than a convention of landscape painting, less than truth.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics.... Error is certainty’s constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.”
—Louis Aragon (1897–1982)