Renaissance Cats from Second Life Kittycats

Renaissance Cats from Second Life Kittycats

Renaissance Cats from Second Life Kittycats

I decided to go back in time and reach for the Renaissance. So what do you think?

Leonardo da Vinci almost Painted a Cat

One of the greatest renaissance artists Leonardo Da Vinci had great plans to paint Madonna and Child with a cat but the cat wasn’t cooperating.  He couldn’t get past the sketching phase. I can feel the cat struggling to get away from the toddler’s grasp; What do you think?

Leonardo da Vinci - 1856,0621.1, The Virgin and Christ Child with a cat (cropped)

Study for the Madonna of the Cat, Leonardo da Vinci, between 1478 and 1481 , ink and bister (a kind of brown ink made from soot) on paper, 5.1 in x 3.7 in, currently at the British Museum. Image from Wikimedia Commons.

The Kittycats image I started with and the text prompt

The Artbreeder steampunk cat image at the top evolved in Artbreeder from the phrase “Tudor cats” with this image

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