Almost certainly Leonardo's last painting. The saint emerges from near-total darkness, smiling, one finger raised toward heaven — no wilderness, no landscape, nothing but the modelled body and the dark. Contemporaries found the ambiguity unsettling, and it has not stopped being unsettling.
Almost certainly Leonardo's last painting. The saint emerges from near-total darkness, smiling, one finger raised toward heaven — no wilderness, no landscape, nothing but the modelled body and the dark. Contemporaries found the ambiguity unsettling, and it has not stopped being unsettling.Read more
