Leonardo da Vinci's The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and John the Baptist is a full-sized chalk drawing done as a model for a painting.This work is,thus,called a __________.

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Leonardo da Vinci's "The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and John the Baptist" is a full-sized chalk drawing intended as a model for a painting, which classifies it as a "cartoon" in artistic terminology. Cartoons were often used in the Renaissance period as full-scale preparatory drawings for paintings, frescoes, or tapestries.

Leonardo Da Vinci's The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne