"the silence of grace"
Description
This Artistic reconstruction is an artistic reconstruction inspired by a female figure found in a book lost after the 1966 flood in Florence, which contained studies and notes related to the Leonardesque circle.
According to materials copied by hand before the book’s disappearance, it depicted a complete portrait of a young woman, shown with her hands resting on a parapet and characterized by a subtly enigmatic gaze.
The figure, softly illuminated against a dark background, directly recalls the compositional model used by Leonardo in portraits such as Ginevra de’ Benci or the Mona Lisa: a front-facing yet elusive gaze, overlapped hands, and a composed yet lively posture.
The facial features, delicate yet firm, suggest a vivid and present personality, while the warm tones of the garment and the detailed drapery reveal deep psychological and formal care.
The artist Navaret, working from the surviving sketches, reconstructed this image using artificial intelligence, offering a plausible painted version of a work likely lost to history, yet clearly rooted in Leonardo’s visual language.
Sketch
Description
Sketch the silence of grace
Legal Notice – Origin and Nature of the Artwork
The artwork presented here is an artistic reconstruction created by Navaret, based on an original hand-drawn sketch made by his father. The sketch was executed from a partial visual testimony of a page from a book that was damaged and subsequently lost following the Florence flood of 1966.
The original source is currently considered empirically unidentifiable, lacking bibliographic traceability and not included in any public archive or protected collection.
The artwork does not reproduce any known or catalogued content, nor does it constitute a mechanical copy of existing works. The reconstruction is to be understood as an autonomous creative interpretation, drawn freehand and subsequently reworked in digital format.
The artwork is protected under current copyright law as the original creation of the artist. No third-party rights related to pre-existing works apply, nor are there any obligations of archival, museum, or cultural protection deriving from known sources.