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St. John the Baptist by Leonardo da Vinci

St. John the Baptist by Leonardo da Vinci

The painting “Saint John the Baptist” was conceived by the artist in the early 1500s, as indicated by a sketch of an angel with a raised hand in John’s pose, pinned to a sheet dated around 1504. Leonardo began to work on it during his second stay in Milan and continued to work in Rome.

Apparently, according to the master himself, the canvas was never finished, work on it continued even in Amboise. From the dark space of the picture a figure of a young man with a raised hand and a cross pressed to the body looks at us with a light silhouette. Gently shimmering in the dark streaming locks frame this beautiful face with a mysteriously inviting smile and a fixed gaze surrounded by dark shadows.

The features of the face clearly read the similarity with Monna Lisa, giving him a somewhat ambiguous character. The figure has blossoming, sensuously trembling forms, and only the cross, as if dissolved in the space of the picture, tells us that we have John the Baptist before us.

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