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Bernardino Lanino. St John the Baptist in the Wilderness. After Leonardo da Vinci. National Gallery of Scotland.
Copies of "St John the Baptist in the Wilderness" are based on the original sketch drawn by Leonardo. One copy is now populary considered to be an authentic masterpiece by da Vinci, however, it was atributted to Francesco Melzi for a long time.
The original painting had to be a double fresco at Belvedere palace audience room in Vatican city.
St John the Baptist had to be placed near the river and the double painting had to be a nymph on the other side of the river (the sketch known as a "Pointing Girl"). However, fresco was never done in material.
This copy is made by Bernardino Lanino, who was a painter from Milano. At his second period of creation he was heavily influenced by Leonardo. This painting describes this well.
And this painting has interesting enigmatic details - we can clearly see the hangman at the right side of the painting. Is it Judas? Then the shape of the hill in the dark mysterious is trully inthe shape of skull - it's the Golgota mountain? We gan see a dark silhuette of a bridge, just like in Mona Lisa. But why this backgruond apears at the back of St John figure - with no connection to this Saint?
Bernardino Lanino. St John the Baptist in the Wilderness. After Leonardo da Vinci. National Gallery of Scotland.
Copies of "St John the Baptist in the Wilderness" are based on the original sketch drawn by Leonardo. One copy is now populary considered to be an authentic masterpiece by da Vinci, however, it was atributted to Francesco Melzi for a long time.
The original painting had to be a double fresco at Belvedere palace audience room in Vatican city.
St John the Baptist had to be placed near the river and the double painting had to be a nymph on the other side of the river (the sketch known as a "Pointing Girl"). However, fresco was never done in material.
This copy is made by Bernardino Lanino, who was a painter from Milano. At his second period of creation he was heavily influenced by Leonardo. This painting describes this well.
And this painting has interesting enigmatic details - we can clearly see the hangman at the right side of the painting. Is it Judas? Then the shape of the hill in the dark mysterious is trully inthe shape of skull - it's the Golgota mountain? We gan see a dark silhuette of a bridge, just like in Mona Lisa. But why this backgruond apears at the back of St John figure - with no connection to this Saint?