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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