Labels:text | letter | document | font | handwriting | ink | number | paper | calligraphy OCR: Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception Agreement Regarding a New Virgin of the Rocks August 18, 1508 Milan, Archivio di Stato di Milano, Cimeli, c. 1 (A), fasc. 42 A further copy of the centerpiece of the Virgin of the Rocks-neither the version now in the Louvre nor that in London's National Gallery-has evidently been commissioned of Leonardo. Accordingly, the painter has made arrangements with the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception that permit him (or his associates) to remove the painting from the altarpiece it was commissioned for and take it to a place more suitable for this kind of work. In a second document of the same day, it is made clear that Leonardo himself will not actually execute this new copy. That will be the job of Ambrogio de Predis, but Leonardo, as inventor ...
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