User talk:Anna Florence

Leonardo
Welcome to Wikipedia!

Unfortunately, it isn't the easiest place to survive, and I hope you will stay and make many more edits. I am saying this because I have just moved your first one!

It hasn't gone far, but it has most definitely been removed from the "generally accepted" section.

No, that painting isn't "generally accepted, despite what two early 19th century painters may have thought about it. As for Carlo Pedretti, I notice that you didn't give a reference. It is like this, people who have bogus Leonardo's or student's copies of Leonardos always take them to Carlo Pedretti because he can be relied on to look kindly and enthusiastically at their painting and say nothing committal. They then interpret this as his agreement.

It is possible that this is a very early copy of a the Virgin of the Rocks in Paris by a student under Leonardo's guidance. It is most certainly not a "version by Leonardo".

How can we be so sure? The other two paintings give you a clue to how Leonardo worked. The paintings are similar but not identical. All the details have been altered, and even the positions of the figures have changed. Although Leonardo used one painting as a model for the other, he didn't make a "copy".

On the other hand, the painting that we are looking at is an exact and very meticulous "replica" in which the student has attempted to get everything precisely the way it is in the Leonardo painting. Every brush stroke, every grass-blade, every tiny detail. This is a very good indication that it is not by Leonardo. Great painters simply do not work that way.

There are a great many copies of both the Louvre painting and the London painting, and nearly all of them are pushed, by their owners, as being "genuine" Leonardos.

Amandajm (talk) 02:56, 22 October 2013 (UTC)