![]() Yet the caricatures “were some of his most popular and influential works,” writes Jonathan Jones at The Guardian, “from the 16th century up to the time of Hogarth,” the hugely popular 18th century English visual satirist. Generally renowned these days for the high seriousness of his Mona Lisa, Last Supper, and Vitruvian Man, Leonardo does not tend to be associated with grotesque humor. During the European Renaissance and the ensuing centuries of artistic development, nearly every artist had a caricature side project-if only in the margins of their sketchbooks-and some, like Leonardo da Vinci, were widely known and appreciated for their skill in the art. The caricature was once a highly-regarded art form, before it was cornered on the upper end by the New York Review of Books and on the more pedestrian side by boardwalk and street fair artists. ![]()
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