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68 Scorpion, Part One]
In the above screenshot (excerpt shown below left), the following can be seen:
- Da Vinci's painting, done in oils on wood, named "The Virgin and Child with St Anne" (St Anne was the grandmother of Jesus, on the maternal side of course) is held to date from c.1510 and so, since the setting is stated by canon authority TOSTFF as being 1502, we must assume this is the as yet unfinished version (see detailed date information below). The scale of the painting in the screenshot corresponds with the real painting which measures 168 x 130 cm.
- A model or prototype of Da Vinci's Aerial Screw, held to be the forerunner of the modern helicopter.
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 above: the scale of the painting left: screenshot excerpt in close-up |
[74 The Raven] - that Holo-Leonardo has progressed to realising the preliminary sketch artfully (pun intended) indicates the passage of time since [68 and 69 Scorpion] and indicates that Janeway is, in her role in the Holoscenario as Catarina, gradually working through the Maestro's life
As is often the case with Leonardo's work, the sources for "The Virgin and Child with St Anne" are rare and contradictory. For instance, had Leonardo already received the commission for the painting from the French King in 1499 after Milan had been occupied? or was the picture begun later in Florence as an altar-piece for the Servite monks of SS. Annunziata? It is known that Leonardo worked on the theme for a long time, hence the plausibility of a version appearing in the Holoscenario in [68 and 69 Scorpion] in 1502, and that he developed several versions of the design. The last version was made during his second Milanese period from 1506, which accords with the generally accepted date of c.1510 for the painting. The final version was painted as a commission for the French King Louis XII, but even in his last years Leonardo worked on studies for the Virgin's robe. His designs for the painting aroused the pubic's interest as soon as he drew the first cartoon. Vasari commented: "....for two days men and women, young and old, made a pilgramage to the room, as if to to a magnificent festival, to admire this extraordinary work of Leonardo's which was astonishing the people."
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The cartoon, c.1499, was drawn in charcoal and chalk on cardboard, and measures 141.5 x 1.4.6 cm, and is located in the National Gallery, London. Instead of the lamb symbolising the Passion of Christ, there is St John the Baptist as a child whose inclusion refers to Christ's baptism. |
The picture's title (in Italian: S. Anna Metterza) refers to the three generations depicted - St Anne, her daughter Mary and the Christ child. It is interpreted as follows: Anne symbolises the Christian church, Mary embodies maternal love, and the lamb symbolises the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ. In [79 Concerning Flight], Janeway tells Tuvok of Leonardo: Freud thought he had a problem with his mother." Sigmund Freud, the originator of psychoanalysis, suggested that "The Virgin and Child with St Anne" be interpreted, due to the youthful appearance of both women, that Anne and Mary respectively embody Leonardo's childhood memories of his two mothers, i.e. his biological mother and his stepmother.
There is a cartoon in the National Gallery in London by Leonardo of the same subject but differing in important respects from the Louvre painting. We know from a letter that Leonardo made another cartoon, now lost. The painting was commissioned by the Servites in Florence. It is unfinished. Maybe it was abandoned because of the artist's sudden interest in mathematics and/or his engagement as military engineer and architect in the service of Cesare Borgia. Someone else seems to have finished the lamb which he had perhaps only sketched in, but the landscape, St Anne, the Virgin and the Child are the work of Leonardo. The paint was applied thinly so that in some places the underlying sketch is visible, which has become apparent as the very dark varnish was lightened and some overpainting removed in 1953.
| In the opening scene of [74 The Raven] (for instance in a screenshot above and shown again at right at reduced size), located to the right of "The Virgin And Child With St Anne" is the Mona Lisa, Leonardo's most famous painting. In the [68 and 69 Scorpion] scene, a model of (Holo-)Leonardo's Aerial Screw can be seen in the background. |
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