Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘only surviving sculpture’ unveiled

Rome: Italian curators have unveiled what they believe is the only surviving sculpture by Leonardo da Vinci at an exhibition in Florence, a media report said on Saturday. It’s always been part of da Vinci’s legend that he made sculptures, including a giant horse, but not a single extant three-dimensional work by him has been identified, the Guardian report said.

The 50 cm-tall red clay sculpture called “The Virgin with the Laughing Child” is the miraculous exception, according to the curators of the exhibition “Verrocchio: Master of Leonardo”, at Palazzo Strozzi. It is said to have been created by da Vinci around 1472, when he was 19 or 20 and a pupil of the Florentine artist Andrea del Verrocchio. The sculpture has been in London’s Victoria and Albert (V&A) Museum since 1858 but had been credited to another artist, Antonio Rossellino, according to Francesco Caglioti, the Italian academic who is leading the new attribution. (IANS)

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