Sigmund Freud was mistaken about Leonardo da Vinci

Sigmund Freud mistakenly described the representation of the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne in Renaissance art as an exceptional theme. This erroneous assertion was published in 1919 in his work Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood. The American art historian Meyer Schapiro subsequently dismantled this theory in his study Leonardo and Freud: An Art-Historical Study.