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Monday, 13 April 2015 13:20

Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts Presents Drawings by Renaissance Masters

Leonardo da Vinci's 'Head of a Young Woman.' Leonardo da Vinci's 'Head of a Young Woman.' Wikipedia

Is Leonardo da Vinci's "Head of a Young Woman" the greatest drawing ever made?

Granted, that may sound like a presumptuous question. Yet both the drawing and its subject — an ethereal young beauty who might easily pass for the Mona Lisa's kid sister or one of the elf-maidens in "The Lord of the Rings" trilogy — have had plenty of admirers over the years. The Renaissance art scholar Bernard Berenson, for example, called it "one of the finest achievements in all draughtsmanship."

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