Leonardo da vinci grotesque heads

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a drawing of a man's head with curly hair and an open collared shirt

The caricature was once a highly-regarded art form, before it was cornered on the upper end by the New York Review of Books and on the more pedestrian side by boardwalk and street fair artists.

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a drawing of an old man's face

Artist: After Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, Vinci 1452–1519 Amboise). Date: after 1500. Medium: Pen and brown ink, on off-white paper (now darkened). Dimens...

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an old drawing of a man with a turban on top of his head

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a drawing of a man's head with his eyes closed

A drawing of the head of a grotesque old man, in profile to the right, wearing a full-crowned soft hat. Melzis number .13.An oversized hat could be a sign of otherness and thus implicitly sinister or evil; here it is merely amusing. The combination of red and black chalks with pen and ink is unusually elaborate for a drawing of this type, and it has been suggested that the red chalk is later pupils work, but the hatching of the red chalk is left-handed and seems to be in the scratchy manner…

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