Leonardo Da Vinci Painting Style

Taking great interest in landscapes, Leonardo da Vinci frequently used rocks and motifs in his paintings (Delieuvin 144). For example, in his painting, the Annunciation the artist was attentive in producing a persuasive illusion of the nature features of the painting using light and dark oil paints to create dimension (Brown … ). Leonardo’s intent was to juxtapose his figures in an environment that was able to show the diversity of the world. In his original painting, Leonardo paints a mountain range using a mixture of light blues in order to create an illusion of perspective that allows it to fade into the distance and diminish into the sky.

To produce this illusion, Leonardo used a gradual and irregular grading of blues that permitted him to use the technique of linear perspective in order to make the colors lose contrast as they recede into the sky (Delieuvin 145).

Although Sali was consistent with his master’s painting styles, the copy had more precise and thicker brushstrokes with darker blues to create the mountain range instead of of quick and slightly messy brushstrokes that Leonardo used in his original painting. Not only that, but Sali also incorporated flowers, trees, and plants that framed the figures of Saint Anne, the Virgin, the Child, and the lamb, which is an element that Leonardo did not use in his original painting as he could not figure out how to frame the figures without obscuring the mountains and overcrowding the painting (Delieuvin 146). In the original version of the painting, there were horizontal and oblique lines that hid the valleys that are seen in the copy of the painting, which infers that Sali replicated the original painting by mimicking the elements that had been covered in order to convey Leonardo’s original vision of his painting (Delieuvin 149). For example, in the copy, Saint Anne is sitting under a bed of plants with the Child and the lamb to the right of her feet (Delieubin 146).

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