Face of a girl
Description
This is an artistic reconstruction based on a testimony, developed through stylistic analyses consistent with the school of Leonardo da Vinci. It is not an authenticated or verified work by Leonardo da Vinci.
The artwork was documented in a book lost after the 1966 flood in Florence, under the title Portrait of a Young Woman. Navaret’s father, who was among the “mud angels” volunteering during the disaster, hand-copied a sketch he had seen in that volume.
The figure portrays a young girl with a gentle and serene face, set against a rocky and hazy landscape typical of Leonardesque atmospheres. Her penetrating gaze, delicate features, and the luminous modeling of the face faithfully reflect the aesthetic and spiritual canons of the master from Vinci.
Through digital elaboration and the use of artificial intelligence, Navaret reconstructed this image starting from the surviving sketch.
Given the striking resemblance to the famous Leonardesque drawing known as the Head of a Young Girl, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_of_a_Woman_(Leonardo,_Turin it is hypothesized that this painting could represent either the original pictorial completion of that sketch, or a different version of the same girl, altered during Leonardo’s definitive execution.
The work offers the viewer a plausible and moving vision of what could have been a lost face of the Renaissance.
Sketch
Description
Face of a girl Sketch
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.