Leonardo Da Vinci : Rocky Landscape Studies in Pen & Ink | Painting Holidays in Dordogne & Provence, France 2025

LEONARDO DA VINCI
‘Study of a Tuscan Landscape – Val d’Arno’
1473
Pen & Ink, nib on vellum
Approx 15 x 22 cm
Uffizi Museum

LEONARDO DA VINCI
‘Study of a Ravine in a Rocky Landscape’
C.1486
Pen & Ink, nib on vellum
Approx 22 x 15 cm
Windsor Leoni Volume

Been looking again at Leonardo’s pen & inks. I wrote about them here:

Pen & Ink-Leonardo da Vinci-Stone Lithography – Mythological Images from Prehistory

I enjoyed reading about them here: https://www.lairweb.org.nz/leonardo/landscape.html

Vasari recorded Leonardo as, “frequently occupied in the preparation of plans to remove mountains or to pierce them with tunnels from plain to plain.”

I’m not currently planning on moving any mountains, other than maybe a little bit of pottering about in the spring garden;-) And maybe doing some more doodles of rocky landscapes….

Detail
‘Deux Bicorne – Bis’
Large oil on canvas

look again at this leonardo oil painting of rocks in one of his backgrounds – wow!

rocks by leonardo on itheir side — rocks by leonardo
on itheir side’
don’t bump your head as you go through!