Leonardo da Vinci at twenty-one, small on a hillside of olive trees above Vinci at dawn, long light-brown hair and a plain wool doublet, a sketchbook of blank pages resting closed on his knee, watching swallows wheel over the Arno valley, the first sun from the right, painterly realism, palette of olive green, dawn gold and haze blue

Leonardo da Vinci at twenty-one, small on a hillside of olive trees above Vinci at dawn, long light-brown hair and a plain wool doublet, a sketchbook of blank pages resting closed on his knee, watching swallows wheel over the Arno valley, the first sun from the right, painterly realism, palette of olive green, dawn gold and haze blue Mostra altro