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LOUVRE MUSEUM
Paris
October 24, 2019 - February 24, 2020
LEONARDO DA VINCI
UNIVERSAL AND TIMELESS
MICHA CHRISTOS
Leonardo da Vinci, head of a young woman called La Scapiliata («the disheveled»), around 1492-1501.
Lead-white with iron pigment and cinnabar, on a lead-white (lead and minium?)
Preparation containing pigments based on copper (verdigris or malachite), lead yellow and tin, later varnished with yellow amber turned green, on walnut panel.
H. 24.7; L. 21 cm.
Parma, Galleria Nazionale, inv. 362, acquisition 1839
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