I made this drawing with pencil today. It is an image of Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna.
Leonardo da Vinci lived in the age of 1452-1519, his life is said to be synchronous with the high renaissance; he was a perfect example of the Renaissance man, excelling in an extraordinary diversity of disciplines, as an architect, sculptor, military engineer and inventor as well as a painter. He produced on of the greatest masterpieces of all, Mona Lisa, he was also on of the first Italian artists to employ landscape as an extension of the subject rather than merely to fill the background. The original is made with silver (crayon?) One of the oldest drawing tools. A piece of silver is drawn over the surface on a special paper, it leaves a thin layer of silver that darkens with time.
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