SOURIRE ET L'ENTRELACS (LE)

SAINTE-ANNE, LA VIERGE ET L’ENFANT JÉSUS - LÉONARD DE VINCI - COLLECTION PALETTES

of JAUBERT Alain

FRANCE, 1989, 00:30:00

Production : DELTA IMAGES, FR3, LA SEPT, MUSEE DU LOUVRE, PAINI Dominique, MUSEE D'ORSAY, REUNION DES MUSEES NATIONAUX
Collection : Musée du Louvre
Genre : Documentary
Keyword : Art, History of art, Louvre Museum, Painting

Summary :
Choosing key-works in the imaginary of the Western culture, the series called “Palettes” tells in each episode the story of a different painting. In a word, it tells the genealogy of the painting. For a painting has its ancestors and its descendants. A double technical and philosophical knowledge, fed on by a long tradition, gave birth to the painting. And the painting itself gave birth, year after year, to a multitude of other images…
Assuming the idea that the deep meaning of a painting is conveyed by the choice of colours and themes, we dissect the canvas from its most visible composition to its deepest significance.


Leonardo da Vinci, a man of experimentation, worked on his painting “Saint Anne” for years, without really finishing it.
At the centre, there is Saint Anne. She wears plaits and is smiling, her eyes lowered. She holds the Blessed Virgin on her lap. The Virgin wears a low-cut dress and leans over the Child…
Do the written documents and drawings of the painter together with the statements on the first versions of “Saint Anne” give us the keys to this very strange painting?
A painting that has been copied a thousand times but has remained a mystery…

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