Category Archives: Fine Art

What Raphael Saw

Posted on July 1, 2014 by Veronica Knox

This is Raphael’s drawing of the ‘Mona Lisa,’ executed in situ when Leonardo da Vinci’s ground-breaking portrait was displayed for artist’s to copy, in 1504. Raphael was a faithful draftsman, so there’s no reason to believe he strayed from what … Continue reading →

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Walking on Venus

Posted on June 26, 2014 by Veronica Knox

When a mural painter has no ladder there are always alternative canvasses. I illustrate floors and tabletops and doors. This ‘Venus underfoot’ is from a renaissance hallway in the art gallery I used to own near Inverness, Scotland. Another of … Continue reading →

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Is Tom Cruise a Time Traveller?

Posted on June 23, 2014 by Veronica Knox

This is the self-portrait of Leonardo da Vinci, age 24, from his Adoration of the Magi – 1475. Leonardo never finished this painting. He shows himself here (on the right side of the adoration) in the classic convention of the … Continue reading →

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The first cellular phone?

Posted on June 18, 2014 by Veronica Knox

I see an angel reading a text message. This painting, the Angel and Tobias (c. 1467) from the studio of Andrea Verrocchio, is considered to contain three of the earliest instances of painting by Leonardo da Vinci’s hand, likely a … Continue reading →

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