Anonymous Leonardesque painter
And that
lion.
Milan. The landscape. A way into Leonardo’s world.
- Work
- Saint Jerome in Penitence
- Attribution supplied
- Anonymous Leonardesque painter
A connection to Milan.
Andrea’s perspectiveI bought this painting because, to me, it belongs to Milan. Not because I see a particular street or building. It belongs to the Milan I associate with Leonardo: a way of looking at a body, at nature, at the distance opening behind a figure.
And then there is the landscape. It draws me past the foreground and into a world I want to spend time in. For me, this is an immediate way of coming into contact with Leonardo’s genius. Not a claim that he painted it, but a personal connection to his world.
And then there is that lion.
I could explain the rest at length. For that part, I would rather just let you look.
“The painting gives me more than one place to enter.”
The landscape matters.
My attention does not stay with the saint alone. It moves between the figure, the lion and the opening in the landscape. The painting gives me more than one place to enter. The connection with Milan, the attraction of that landscape and the unexpected character of the lion are not separate reasons. Together, they explain why I wanted to live with this painting.
Artwork
& sources.
Identity
- Attribution supplied
- Anonymous Leonardesque painter
- Subject
- Saint Jerome in Penitence
Sources & attribution notes
The attribution is the designation supplied by the collector with the photograph. It does not identify the artist as Leonardo da Vinci or establish membership of his workshop. No scholarly entry, dated provenance, medium or measurements have been supplied for this page; those fields have not been inferred.