Print of Leonardo da Vinci - Madonna of the carnation - around 1473
Leonardo da Vinci - Madonna of the carnation
Year: circa 1473 - oil on panel 47.5x62 cm
Preserved at: Alte Pinakothek, Munich, Germany.
Leonardo da Vinci's painting, the Madonna del Garafano, is among the artist's first works and is identified with that "Madonna della Caraffa" described by Giorgio Vasari in the collections of Pope Clement VII, born Medici: «Lionardo then made a Our Woman in a painting, which was next to Pope Clement VII, very excellent. And among the other things that were done to you, he countered a jug full of water with some flowers inside, where besides the wonder of the liveliness, he had imitated the dew of the water above, so that she seemed more alive than the liveliness. "
Maria looks at her son and hands him a red carnation, the color of which perhaps recalls the blood of the Passion.
