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Art...Leonardo Da Vinci And Ginevra de' Benci
Ginevra de' Benci is the only Da Vinci painting in North America. It resides at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. It is a must stop for your end of the year class trip.
Art…Leonardo Da Vinci And Ginevra de’ Menci
Classes all over the country are ready to take their ‘end of the year’ class trips to Washington. You may be looking for something unique in the form of a trip to celebrate a graduation. The National Gallery of Art and its “multiple buildings of amazing” have to be a stop on any trip to Washington, D.C.
The National Gallery’s museums are now showing Albrecht Durer, Small Impressionist Art, Russian Art/Music, and their normal extensive collections of Artists of America and The World. Our top suggestion is to see the two sides of one of a kind Leonardo Da Vinci painting called the Ginevra de’ Benci. This painting has to be researched and has to be seen.
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Let us help! Leonardo da Vinci was born in 1452. There isn’t much information about the first 22 years of his life on any Internet research stop. Leonardo da Vinci painted Ginevra de’ Benci, a young 16 year old Florentine noblewoman circa 1474. She was about to marry Luigi Niccolini and it is uncertain who commissioned the painting.
This seems to be one of Da Vinci’s first recorded works and it is a gem. The painting is an oil on panel. The work was purchased for the National Gallery of Art by the Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund. Research says Genevra is missing a six-inch piece at the bottom of the painting that may have been the subject’s folded hands.
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Ginevra de’ Benci is the only Da Vinci painting in North America. The painting is one of only four female portraits painted by Leonardo. Cecilia Gallerani, the Mona Lisa, and La belle ferronnière round out the four.
Leonardo Da Vinci titled the Ginevra painting “Beauty Adorns Virtue.”
Karen, our local art historian, says the three Da Vinci paintings in the Louvre are better. She claims they have three that were worthy of viewing… Mona Lisa, St. John the Baptist, and the Virgin and Child with St. Anne.
She, also, says her personal favorite is at the Galleria Nationale in Parma…”La Scapigliata.” What do you think would be the right choice from the paintings depicted in this column?
