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The self-portrait is drawn by Leonardo da Vinci in red chalk on paper. It depicts the head of an elderly man in three-quarter view, his face turned towards the viewer. The subject is distinguished by his long hair and long waving beard which flow over the shoulders and breast. The length of the hair and beard is uncommon in Renaissance portraits and suggests, as now, a person of sagacity. The face has a somewhat aquiline nose and is marked by deep lines on the brow and pouches below the eyes. It appears as if the man has lost his upper front teeth, causing deepening of the grooves from the nostrils. The eyes of the figure do not engage the viewer but gaze ahead, veiled by the long eyebrows, with a sense of solemnity.
The drawing has been drawn in fine lines, shadowed by hatching and
executed with the left hand, as was Leonardo's habit. The paper
has brownish "fox marks" caused by the accumulation of
iron salts due to moisture. It is housed at the Royal Library (Biblioteca
Reale) in Turin, Italy, and is not generally viewable by the public
due to its fragility and poor condition. “Researchers have
developed a nondestructive way to gauge the condition of the drawing
by quantifying the chromophores in the paper, the culprit behind
its yellowing. Their technique, described in Applied Physics Letters
(2014), will be used to assess the rate at which the image is degrading
and to estimate its life expectancy.” This magnificent red chalk piece is believed to be a self-portrait of Leonardo. It is believed he painted this around the age of 60. The piece is very detailed and highlights on the human face. He makes a perfect nose and eyes. He also paints a lot of hair on the painting. The wavy hair flows through the entire painting. The paper is 33.3cm x 21.6cm. It is very small. He draws in a technique called three-quarter. It gives a great view of him facing right. This portrait really portrays the realistic human face. The artifact is a self-portrait. It is very realistic piece. People were able to see what he actually looks like. If you were to search Da Vinci on the Internet this picture is often shown. He is also trying to show the realistic human face. Although his face is not what we call perfect, he wanted to show the people the true him. He painted this for everyone to see. Da Vinci really expresses true realism.
In Da Vinci’s portrait the values of individualism and humanism
are present. By painting himself he portrays individualism. It’s
all about himself. He highlights the individual features in himself.
The human body is also individualism. He paints his beautiful face
and all of his wavy hair. He paints the perfection in himself. It
is also humanism. He paints a realistic human. A normal human being.
He prints out a very simple real person. Before he painted this
he also studied the human body. This allowed him to understand what
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it really a self-portrait of Leonardo? Is the Portrait Authentic? This famous red chalk drawing is the only work largely agreed to be a self-portrait by da Vinci. It dates to around 1515, when Leonardo was 63. The amiable old man depicted in the drawing appears to be of a much older age, and indeed various sources report that the master looked 10 years older than his age. |
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The assumption that the drawing is a self-portrait of Leonardo was made in the 19th century, based on the similarity of the sitter to the portrait of Leonardo in Raphael's The School of Athens and on the high quality of the drawing, consistent with others by Leonardo. It was also decreed to be a self-portrait based on its likeness to the frontispiece portrait of Leonardo in Vasari’s Second Edition of The Lives of the Artists. Frank Zöllner states: "This red chalk drawing has largely determined our idea of Leonardo's appearance for it was long taken to be his only authentic self-portrait." However, the identification of the drawing as a self-portrait is not universally accepted. The claim that it represents Leonardo has been criticized by a number of Leonardo scholars and experts, such as Robert Payne, Professor Martin Kemp, Professor Pietro Marani, Carlo Pedretti, Larry J. Feinberg, and Ernst Gombrich. A frequent criticism made in the late 20th century is that the drawing depicts a man of a greater age than Leonardo himself achieved, as he died at the age of 67, and he allegedly made the drawing between the age of 58-60. It has been suggested that the sitter represents Leonardo's father Piero da Vinci or his uncle Francesco, based on the fact they both had a long life and lived until the age of 80. Wikipedia.org |
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| Leonardo’s
self-portrait, though a beloved work of art, has been at the center
of controversy throughout history regarding it’s authenticity
as a self-portrait. Although most scholars see a distinct connection
between this drawing’s subject and Plato in Raphael’s
The School of Athens (which was posed for by Leonardo, around the
same time as the drawing), some scholars have doubts about whether
the drawing is indeed a self-portrait of the famed Renaissance master.
Much of the scholarly criticism stems from the observation that the man depicted in the drawing looks much older than Leonardo ever was, as he died at the age of 67. If that is true, the skeptical scholarly belief is that the subject of the drawing is either da Vinci’s father, Ser Piero, or his uncle Francesco. news.universityproducts.com |
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dated around 1515, some experts believe the picture corresponds more
with Leonardo's style in the 1490s, yet the subject of the drawing
is an old man. "He wasn't terribly keen on the idea of self-portraiture full stop," says James Hall, author of The Self-Portrait: a Cultural History - he doesn't believe the portrait was drawn by Leonardo. "He didn't much like the idea that the art work should be a portrayal of the artist. He wanted the art work to represent an ideal." Hall thinks this drawing has become famous at least partly because of the sheer lack of self-portraits by Leonardo. "People have latched onto this like the philosopher's stone and clung to it." But others are less sceptical. "I'm quite happy to believe it is a self-portrait but I think it's for each person to decide when they see the real object," says Liz Rideal, the author of two books on self-portraits and a lecturer at the National Portrait Gallery in London and Slade School of Fine Art. She says most people want to believe it is a genuine Leonardo "because he has this superman status… I think we are in awe of genius and therefore, if this is the self-portrait of a genius, then we want to see what he looked like." |
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director of the Royal Library, Giovanni Saccani is in no doubt: "It
is a self-portrait… anyone who finds themselves standing in
front of this drawing is struck dumb. The first thing they say when
they recover is 'this is giving me the shivers'. The expressive power
of this face is absolutely connected to an emotion and an ability
that only Leonardo could possess." By Dany Mitzman, Turin, 2014 - bbc.com |
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biographers of Leonardo da Vinci describe him in the most attractive
features of his face: According
to Anonymous: Vinci was a handsome, well built, possessed enormous physical strength, was well versed in the knightly arts, horseback riding, dancing, fencing and so on. BES Brockhaus and Efron * * * * * |
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Leonardo
da Vinci's "The Last Supper" may include two self-portraits
of the legendary Renaissance artist, according to a British art expert.
Ross King says the nose, beards and hairstyles of two of the apostles
standing to the right of Jesus in the portrait, Thomas and James the
Lesser, match a portrait of Leonardo that was made several years after
he created his masterpiece. King told the Independent that while historians
have long-suspected Leonardo placed images of himself in his works,
no one has thoroughly researched "The Last Supper" for such
evidence. The 15-x-29-foot painting has been the source of endless speculation, though most of the analysis has focused on hidden meanings within the painting itself, such as how each of the apostles is reacting to the revelation that one of them has betrayed Jesus. Still, King concedes that there is no definitive record of Leonardo's physical appearance but says the Greek physical characteristics were "rarities for an Italian man of that period," according to UPI. Leonardo da Vinci scholar Charles Nicholl supports King's hypothesis, telling the Independent,"Of all the apostles that [Leonardo] would wish to be identified with, I think Doubting Thomas would be top of his list because Leonardo was a great believer in asking questions rather than accepting what people tell you." Eric Pfeiffer |
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Other portraits of Leonardo da Vinci Other portraits of Leonardo by other hands exist, apparently dating from the early 16th century up to the 19th century, pre-dating the identification of the red chalk drawing. These portraits present a different image of Leonardo than the elderly coarse-featured disheveled man as represented in the red chalk drawing. Another red chalk drawing, a profile portrait at Windsor, attributed to his pupil Francesco Melzi, and may be the earliest known surviving portrait. Other portraits, such as the Lucan portrait, or the engraving portrait by Raffaello Morghen are known to have been made after his death. Several
portraits are thought to exist of Leonardo as a youth or a young
man. These include Verrocchio's statue of David and a possible self-portrait
in the Adoration of the Magi; critics suspect that the lower right
attendant in this painting represents Leonardo. In De divina proportione
by the mathematician Luca Pacioli, which Leonardo illustrated, the
artist may also have included a self-portrait. |
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