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The holy Trinity is rooted in the rock, at the very formation of its deepest layers, and in the mountains that turn into sky-blue clouds. The arm of the Virgin is swathed in these very halos like a soft gossamer while they echo the blue of her coat like a prelude to the kingdom of God, her feet slightly touching the Holy Land. Leonardo da Vinci spent his whole life capturing light in all its states.
Composition studies for Trinity with St. Anne St. John the Baptist, drawings of machines. By 1500 London, The British Museum, 1875,0612.17 © The Trustees of the British Museum
For this very canvas like for any other one, he made numerous technical charts on the stars race, the position of reflections, as well as observations on nature’s mutation when bathed with rays or on the contrary when hidden by them, all for the sake of light. His studies on trees or watercourses, on rocks and streams whose rough yet delicate lines speak for the whole intensity of a torrent of immortality are breathtakingly emotional and exquisitely beautiful so that we may be left crying from joy and from faith.
