Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/Virgin of the Rocks – da Vinci

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OriginalThe Virgin of the Rocks (about 1491/2–99 and 1506–08); This is the second version of this piece undertaken by da Vinci, and was a commission from the Milanese Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception for their oratory; this was to be the central panel of three above a new altar. The first version completed (now in the Louvre) never reached its intended destination (multiple theories exist as to why not), and so da Vinci produced this second, which was installed in the chapel in August 1508.
Reason
An excellent image of a very well-known picture by one of the most famous artists.
Articles in which this image appears
Virgin of the Rocks, Themes in Italian Renaissance painting, Leonardo da Vinci
FP category for this image
Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Culture, entertainment, and lifestyle/Religion and mythology or Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Artwork/Paintings
Creator
Leonardo da Vinci
  • We don't have a good copy of the Louvre one, I think. I've seen the two pictures side-by-side and the differences between them are quite marked - the poses are different as are the colours. I don't know whether the transfer of the French one from wood to canvas affected the colours, but they do look very different! - SchroCat (talk) 18:50, 30 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Leonardo da Vinci Virgin of the Rocks (National Gallery London).jpg --Armbrust The Homunculus 09:10, 9 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]