leonardo da vinci paintings
The singularly beautiful “Head of Christ” (Plate VI.), now in the Brera Gallery at Milan, is the original study for the head of the principal figure in the fresco painting of the “Last Supper.” In spite of decay and restoration it expresses “the most elevated seriousness together with Divine Gentleness, pain on account of the faithlessness of His disciples, a full presentiment of His own death, and resignation to the will of His Father.”
Soon thereafter, Leonardo would become “first painter and engineer, and architect of the king.” for his final employer, Francis the 1st in France.