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Well, it is a matter of personal taste, in this case. But things has to be seen in context in art history. Considering how people were drawing and painting before
Leonardo, one has to be amazed how outstanding this man was. Nowadays one can take things for granted, because many painters learned the
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Van Gogh blown up ... what heresy! But quite true of course. I had a look for images of the Louvre version of the
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Leonardo da Vinci. Leonardo was an Italian Renaissance painter, sculptor, architect, musician, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, geologist, cartographer, botanist, and writer and who knows what more. He is considered to be one of the greatest painters of all
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as restored a few minutes ago by yours truly :). Happy to support that.
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