Title of Artwork: “Head of a Young Woman with Tousled Hair (Leda)”
Artwork by Leonardo da Vinci
Year Created 1508
Summary of Head of a Young Woman with Tousled Hair (Leda)
Italian Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci painted the painting on wood in oil. It’s called “The Head of a Woman,” and it’s in the Galleria Nazionale di Parma in Italy. It’s thought to be from around 1508.
All About Head of a Young Woman with Tousled Hair (Leda)
The painting is done and was first mentioned in the House of Gonzaga’s collection in 1627, when it was added to the collection. It was made in the high renaissance, which was a time in art. Perhaps Ippolito Calandra came up with the same idea for Margaret Paleologa, the wife of Federico II Gonzaga, in 1531.
He wanted to hang it in her bedroom. It was in 1501 that the marquess sent the letter to Pietro Novellara. They wanted Leonardo to paint a Madonna for her private studiolo.
As part of the Parmesan collection since 1839, this painting has been dated to Leonardo’s mature years, around the time of Virgin on the Rocks or The Virgin and Child with St. John the Baptist, which were painted at the same time.
This is what Alexander Nagel said about the painting: “Because the eyes don’t point to anything out of the way, they give the impression that they’re going to stay in that place.
They see through the filter of an inner state, not through the immediate impressions of what is going on in the world outside. It’s the state of mind where you’re not thinking about anything specific, and you don’t even know about your own body.
In this case, a new kind of pictorial effect suggests an inner life without action or narrative.”
Information Citations
En.wikipedia.org, https://en.wikipedia.org/.
