Mary sits on the lap of her mother, Saint Anne, and reaches for the infant Christ, who grips a lamb, a sign of his coming sacrifice. Leonardo worked on the panel for years and never finished it, locking the three figures into one group before a hazy mountain landscape. A cleaning in 2011 split experts over whether it left the picture too bright.
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Freud claimed to see a vulture hidden in the Virgin's drapery, a theory built on a mistranslation: the bird in Leonardo's childhood memory was a kite.
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