The delicately painted veil, the finely wrought tresses, and the careful rendering of folded fabric demonstrate Leonardo’s studied observations and inexhaustible patience. The subject’s softly sculptural face shows Leonardo’s skillful handling of sfumato (use of fine shading) and reveals his understanding of the musculature and the skull beneath the skin. The three-quarter view, in which the sitter’s position mostly turns toward the viewer, broke from the standard profile pose used in Italian art and quickly became the convention for all portraits, one used well into the 21st century. Yet this simple description of a seemingly standard composition gives little sense of Leonardo’s achievement. The painting presents a woman in half-body portrait, which has as a backdrop a distant landscape. Leonardo da Vinci: Mona Lisa See all videos for this article
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