Leonardo Da Vinci : Rocky Landscape Studies in Pen & Ink

LEONARDO DA VINCI
‘Study of a Tuscan Landscape – Val d’Arno’
1473
Pen & Ink, nib on vellum
Approx 15 x 22 cm
Uffizi Museum

LEONARDO DA VINCI
‘Study of a Ravine in a Rocky Landscape’
C.1486
Pen & Ink, nib on vellum
Approx 22 x 15 cm
Windsor Leoni Volume

Been looking again at Leonardo’s pen & inks. I wrote about them here:

I enjoyed reading about them here: https://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/landscape.html

Vasari recorded Leonardo as, “frequently occupied in the preparation of plans to remove mountains or to pierce them with tunnels from plain to plain.”

 

‘Croix de Renard’ – Detail
1996
Ink & Pastel
© adam cope
I’m not currently planning on moving any mountains, other than maybe a little bit of pottering about in the spring garden;-) And maybe doing some more doodles of rocky landscapes….

Detail
‘Deux Bicorne – Bis’
Large oil on canvas

look again at this leonardo oil painting of rocks in one of his backgrounds – wow!

 

rocks by leonardo on itheir side
rocks by leonardo
on itheir side’
don’t bump your head as you go through!