L’avertissement (Spirit scene) | Serafino Macchiati | 1905 Leonardo da Vinci exquisite craftsmanship

exquisite craftsmanship

almost liquid grace

all symbols of human knowledge

making the painting both serene and unsettling

and Jurisprudence (1903)—form one of the most controversial trilogies in modern art

L’avertissement (Spirit scene) | Serafino Macchiati | 1905 Leonardo da Vinci exquisite craftsmanshipAbout the artwork: Lavertissement (Spirit Scene) (1905) by Serafino Macchiati is a haunting image that blends the everyday with the uncanny. Inspired by Jules Clareties novel Moi et lAutre, it depicts Andr Fortis, a man split between two selves, confronted during a dinner by the luminous vision of a womans head floating in the air. More than a ghostly apparition, the scene embodies Fortiss fractured psyche, where the boundaries between reality and