I visited Birmingham Art Gallery and Museum where I viewed the 'lost in lace' exhibition and also viewed the 'Ten Drawings by Leonardo Di Vinci' exhibition. Where I found this drawing 'Apocalyptic scenes with notes'.
The four separate sketches here appear to show scenes from the end of the world. In the upper half of the sheet, fire rains down from a thundercloud onto tiny figures as a mountain and fortress crumbles into an abyss. At lower right, more cowering figures are incinerated by an aerial fire; at lower centre, a great ball of smoke and fire burns over precipitous cliffs surrounding a huge pit in which the sea boils; and to the left, skeletons climb from their graves.
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