Leonado da vinci 1452-1519
The Virgin and Chid with Sain John the Baptist 1499-1500
The Virgin and Chid with Sain Anne 1510
Cartoon (drawing) , oil on Panel (wood)
Dimension: 105 x 42 cm , 168 x 130 cm.
Location: London Nation Gallery, Louvre Paris
London Version
Leonado's cartoon shown the Virgin Mary seated on the Knee of her mother, St.Anne,while holding the Christ Child, who is blessing St.John the Baptist. The detail in the darkest shadows and brightest highlights give the face a mysterious radiance. The completed oil version in the Louvre.
Louvre Version
Depicting St Anne, her daughter the Virgin and the infant Jesus. The Christ is shown holding with a sacrificial lamb symbolizing his passion as the Virgin tries to restrain him. Positioning of the virgin and St Anne one realizes that the virgin Mother is sitting on st Anne's lap. It is unclear what meaning this could have and what meaning Leonado intended to project with that pose. From the painting that St Anne is a significantly larger person than Mary. This subtle yet perceptible distortion in size was utilized by Leonado to emphasize the mother daughter relationship between the two women despite the apparent lack of visual cues to the greater age of St. Anne that would otherwise identify her as the mother. The child is holding a lamp. Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis examination of Leonado a memory of his childhood always dreamind to vultuer came down to him (he told in his essay) Accordind to Freud,the Virgin's garment reveals when viewed sideways.