Comparisons

Isabella d'Este

Leonardo: Isabella d’Este, portrait drawing (sketch). Photo: The Louvre Museum.

Face in profile and shoulders turned three-quarters toward the viewer, which is very similar to the composition of Domitian.

Leonardo: Man wearing a laurel wreath. Photo: The Royal Library, Turin.

Roman emperor types appear a few times in Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings, according to experts and scholars.

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Leonardo: Profile of a warrior in helmet, drawing. Photo: The British Museum.

Face in profile. Perhaps a masquerader?

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