Talk:Virgin of the Rocks

message: I have been unable to find any info backing this claim up .  I'm removing the portion until proper citation can be found.
So popular (not scandalous) did these paintings prove that some believe that a third version was painted,  the one kept today in the Chéramy Collection in Switzerland.
68.13.6.96 (talk) 07:11, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Removal of "third painting" notation

message: The content about the Da Vinci Code is rediculous to even bother including; that is a passing fad and is irrelavant to the work at hand. In 10 years no one will care about Dan Brown, but the painting will still be important. --Matt Aufderheide
:Ok, I'm not here to really talk about the Da Vinci Code in itself but whilst reading it. I visited England this past summer/fall and in doing so I went to the Exeter Cathedral. While there my fiance' and I happened upon a picture entitled The Virgin Of The Rocks, I took a few different pictures of it and also of the plaque that was on the wall next to the picture. On this plaque it states that the "Copy" On Da Vinci's The Virgin Of The Rocks was on display in London's National Gallery... So my question is which place has the Real copy, the National Gallery or The Exeter Cathedral???Destroyallthatwhichisevil (talk) 00:45, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: See the article - London & Paris. Johnbod (talk) 01:44, 29 January 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Removed Da Vinci Code stuff

message: If the Louvre version is considered the original version and the one with more of da Vinci's own work, why isn't it the one displayed?Flannel 00:08, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: If you have a non-copyrighted photo, add it. Paul B 07:48, 2 December 2005 (UTC)

text: You can assume what you like, but it was an answer. Paul B 07:25, 24 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Why Not Use the Louvre Version?

message: I added this:
:"The authenticity of the London painting has been called in question by geologist Ann C. Pizzorusso, who argues its geological inaccuracies, unlike the Louvre version, means it is a fake."
I believe this is sourced from Boorstin's The Discoverers. Hopefully somebody can confirm...  Trekphiler 18:58, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There really is no suggestion that it is a "fake". That is is a different claim from the argument that it wa not wholly - or even at all - painted by Leonardo himself. Paul B 19:26, 17 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Fake??

message: This article never fully explains which picture is which name, or which name is used more, or should be used. Could someone please tell me or note it so that other people will understand why the picture has 2 names? → J@red  22:25, 21 May 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The picture does not have two names, it has no name at all. Artists did not give names to paintings in those days. The titles are just conventional descriptions. "Madonna" (Italian for "my Lady") and "Virgin" are just two different terms for Mary. Both are often used in English. In French the term "Vierge" is normally used, which translates literally as "Virgin", however in English it has been more common to adopt the Italian word, mainly because English-speaking countries are mostly Protestant and so treat "marioloatry" as an alien phenomenon. In The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown states, oddly, that the Louvre painting was called The Madonna of the Rocks and that the NG painting was called The Virgin of the Rocks. In fact the painting in France is generally known as La Vierge aux rochers, which can legitimately be translated as Virgin or as Madonna, but which, as I said, literally means "Virgin". In the NG itself the title Virgin of the Rocks is preferred . So we use "Virgin of the Rocks" as the title in both cases. Paul B 00:54, 22 May 2006 (UTC)

text: Untrue, sez 'oo? Paul B is in fact correct. Both museums call their paintings in English the Virgin ... but Italians & best-seller writers may prefer Madonna.  London,  Paris.  Neither painting is called anything "on" the rocks, a quite different concept. Johnbod 19:41, 6 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Madonna or Virgin? 

message: :There is no historical evidence to support any of these contentions.
There's no source cited that seems to claim this.  It seems to be the author's opinion.  There is no attempt made to support it's verifiability (Wikipedia:Verifiability), nor does it seem to be written from a neutral point of view (Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view).  I'll also note that any kind of statement that there, "is no evidence," is awfully difficult to support.
:It is impossible to "cite" the non-existence of sources, because there is nothing to cite. It does not alter the fact than no evidence exists. Art historical literature does not discuss this non-issue precisely because it is never even a question. All the historical sources regarding the paintings are discussed exhausively in the catalogues of the London National Gallery and the Louvre. There are also numerous books by Leonardo scholars in which the documents relating to these works are examined. These paintings have been as thoroughly researched as is humanly possible over the last century and more. NPOV policy clearly states that facts should be presented. ("We sometimes give an alternative formulation of the non-bias policy: assert facts, including facts about opinions — but don't assert opinions themselves. There is a difference between facts and opinions. By "fact" we mean "a piece of information about which there is no serious dispute."). We do not dispute that the Battle of Waterloo was in 1815 just because someone writes a science fiction novel in which it occurs in the year 2345 due to a temporal distortion. Likwise here. We state the facts, about which there is no serious dispute amongst scholars. Paul B 09:56, 7 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Sorry, I've added the refernce - YET AGAIN. This seems to be regularly deleted by people for unknow reasons. Can I suggest that UNLESS Zollner has been shown to be wrong people leave it alone - please, I'm getting tired of having to re-enter the reference details again and again! Mercury543210 20:54, 28 June 2007 (UTC)

text: OK, though I still believe that Zollner's discussion is the most authoritative. His is the most recent assessment of the evidence by decades. Mercury543210 19:15, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: And what new evidence has turned up in the intervening years? The subject was not exactly unexplored in 1961, and Davies is on the whole a more authoritative figure than Zollner. Johnbod 21:05, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unsupported and Non-Neutral Claim 

message: :There are two opposing reasons given as to why two paintings were painted and bother are given as fact.
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The completed work was finally installed in 1508. It seems as though the original work was sold to a private client after a lengthy financial dispute with the confraternity. A second version was eventually produced by Leonardo and his assistants, which was installed with the de Predises's side-panels.
 
and 
As for the painting being "too scandalous" to show in a church, Leonardo and de Predises actually wanted more money from the church than had been originally agreed. The church agreed to pay a substantial bonus but not as much as Leonardo and de Predises wanted. So Leonardo and de Predises sold it to a private collector and then made a second copy.
Light 22:49, 31 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Where is the contradiction? One says it was a financial dispute and the other fleshes out the nature of the dispute. Paul B 14:19, 1 February 2007 (UTC)

text: In fact there is a contradiction, and only the second bit of text remains (currently), minus the last sentence, for which there is no evidence.  Johnbod 03:19, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: There is still no contradiction. Error, maybe. Paul B 07:28, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Two Different Explainations 

message: www.davincisketches.com/Human/Studies1.htm Leonardo da Vinci's study for the Virgin of the Rocks
- site has ok pics of various sketched. Johnbod 22:03, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  blacklisted link removed 

message: This bit needs a major rewrite, by someone who understands what it is trying to say, especially the parts I have bolded:
In her 1967 book (published in English in 1985) Angela Ottino della Chiesa cites four derivations of The Virgin of the Rocks. The Holy Family and St. John by Bernardino Luini in the Prado in Milan, The Thuelin Madonna by Marco d'Oggiono in the Thuelin collection in Paris and The Holy Infants Embracing by Joos van Cleve in the Capodimonte Museum in Naples are all shown in 'thumbnail' form, but can be found by searching on www. Only Leonardo was capable of taking the form of the Virgin of the Rocks and removing Mary and the Angel Uriel to leave the two Holy Children, Jesus and St.John the Baptist in a humanist embrace. This image was much copied by Flemish artists such as Joos van Cleve and Quentin Messys - there is a small painting in Chatsworth by the latter. The name on the frame is LEONARDO DA VINCI, showing that at one time, this Flemish work was once attributed to the Master, Leonardo. Angela is an authority on Bernardino Luini; here work The Complete Paintings of Leonardo da Vinci (introduced by Leopold Ettlinger) is more readily available than Leonardo da Vinci; The Complete Paintings by Pietro C. Marani (Abrams - New York, 2000)
Johnbod 22:10, 10 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dubious section 

message: from my research there is still no consensus concerning the London version. The new stand of the National Gallery on the subject is their own, but i didn't find anything new to support it. In addition, the link - "The Virgin of the Rocks: Da Vinci decoded", Jonathan Jones, The Guardian, 13 July 2010 - doesn't explain anything at all, except that the author of the article - wich is simply a journalist and no expert- is realy fond of the painting.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Vinciadmirer (talk • contribs) 16:12, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
replies: text: Fair enough, but then the gardeners and geologists aren't art experts either. The London version has always been attributed to Leonardo by the NG, with allowance for other hands.  It is "by Leonardo" and "studio intervention was limited to minor parts", eg the cross and halos (if these are contemporary at all) in Davies 1961 note 31, and eg Levey, Michael, The National Gallery Collection, 1987, National Gallery Publications, . What is "new" is the assertion that there was effectively no workshop assistance.  Having seen the two versions in the London exhibition in the same room, often a decisive test, I personally thought (as did most) that the London version held its ground very well. Johnbod (talk) 17:39, 17 January 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  concerning the attribution 

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