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Leonardo da Vinci
's
cartoon
The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist
combines two themes popular in
Florentine
painting of the 15th century: the
Virgin
and
Child
with
St John the Baptist
and the Virgin and Child with
St Anne
. St Anne's enigmatic gesture of pointing her index finger towards the heavens recurs in two of Leonardo's last paintings, his
St John the Baptist
and his
Bacchus
, and is regarded as the quintessential Leonardesque gesture. It currently hangs in the
National Gallery
in
London
.
Artist:
Leonardo da Vinci
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