Head of a Woman — La Scapigliata
The Beautiful Portrayal of a Woman by Leonardo Da Vinci
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1 min readOct 7, 2021
This painting is the unfinished portrayal of a woman with disheveled hair.
It shows a young woman with her eyes down, and her head tilted.
Leonardo Da Vinci was inspired by the ancient Roman author Pliny, who said the greatest artist Apelles left his last work ‘Venus of Cos’ unfinished, and his work was more admired than his other finished painting of the goddess.
Pliny the Elder was a famous artist during the period of the renaissance.
Why Leonardo painted the head of a woman?
You can see the savagery of her hair is in contrast to her enlighten face.
Leonardo Di Vinci painted La Scapigliata in a way to show the world that how a woman can be inherently beautiful with a wild power that could not be chained.
October 2021
