The National GalleryThe finished painting (left) and Leonardo Da Vinci’s considerations mid-work in sketch form on the ... which shows the Virgin Mary, Baby Jesus, and an infant Saint John ...

Abbott described each sketch as a “delicate and intimate ... Anna Otzinger, 61, from Vienna, describes her vision of the Virgin Mary. “She was so beautiful,” said Otzinger, “She didn ...

Over the centuries, Mary became one of the most popular figures of Christendom. Yet she appears in only a handful of pages in the Gospels. Visualizing the Virgin Mary — an exhibition of ...