🖼️ The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne · Leonardo da Vinci
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The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is an unfinished oil painting by High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1501–1519. It depicts Saint Anne, her daughter the Virgin Mary and the infant Jesus. Christ is shown grasping a sacrificial lamb symbolizing his Passion. The painting was commissioned as the high altarpiece for the Church of Santissima Annunziata in Florence and its theme had long preoccupied Leonardo. Leonardo da Vinci, 1511 — painted at 59. Poplar panel and oil paint. 168 × 130 cm. In the Department of Paintings of the Louvre. Florentine Renaissance art and High Renaissance. Wiki link
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