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Each volume is a visual resource with over 300 full-color illustrations, telling the story of a single artist with a look at the artist's life, the context in which he worked, and an analysis of his masterpieces.
Author Notes
Leonardo da Vinci, born April 15, 1452, is often called the archetype of the Renaissance Man; this genius in science, engineering, aeronautics, technology was also one of the world's greatest painters, as well as a sculptor, an architect, and a town planner. Born in Vinci, Leonardo was apprenticed as a 14-year-old to the sculptor-painter Andrea Verrocchio in Florence. In 1482, he went to Milan as a military engineer, sculptor, and architect, and remained there for 17 years. While in Milan, he designed the crossing tower of the Milan cathedral and, among many other works, painted The Last Supper (1496--97), a mural in the Church of Santa Maria delle Grazie. During these years in Milan, da Vinci also composed his Treatise on Painting (1489--1518) and filled his notebooks. Leonardo's drawing of the Vitruvian Man is also regarded as a cultural icon.
In 1499, da Vinci returned to Florence. The Mona Lisa (1503--06) dates from that period. After a short and unsuccessful time in Rome (1513--16), he settled in France under the patronage of Francis I. He died in Amboise at the age of 67 on May 2, 1519, and was buried in the Chapel of Saint-Hubert in Château d'Amboise, in France. A supposedly lost manuscript of da Vinci's was rediscovered at the National Library in Madrid in 1965 and published in 1974.
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Table of Contents
1452-1481 Leonardo in the Florence of the Medici | |
Medicean Florence: Lorenzo the Magnificent | p. 8 |
Patrons and workshops | p. 10 |
Apprenticeship with Verrocchio | p. 12 |
The Baptism | p. 14 |
The artist and the visible world | p. 16 |
The Annunication | p. 18 |
Painters from outside Florence | p. 20 |
The theme of the Madonna and Child | p. 22 |
Madonna with the Carnation | p. 24 |
Flemish echoes in Florentine painting | p. 26 |
Ginevra de' Benci | p. 28 |
Light and shadow | p. 30 |
St Jerome Penitent | p. 32 |
The speaking gesture | p. 34 |
Adoration of the Magi | p. 36 |
1482-1499 At the court of Ludovico il Moro | |
The letter | p. 40 |
Milan, the Sforza capital | p. 42 |
Contributions from central Italy | p. 44 |
Northern artists at court | p. 46 |
The Virgin of the Rocks | p. 48 |
The demands of court | p. 50 |
The Sforza Monument | p. 52 |
Architect, town-planner, technologist | p. 54 |
Faces, eloquent and grotesque | p. 56 |
The Last Supper | p. 58 |
The science of painting | p. 60 |
The Renaissance portrait | p. 62 |
Leonardo's Milanese portraits | p. 64 |
The Sala delle Asse | p. 66 |
Mantua, Venice, and the Romagna | p. 68 |
Leonardo, military engineer | p. 70 |
1500-1508 The return to Florence | |
The republic of Savonarola | p. 74 |
The Battle of Anghiari | p. 76 |
The first Mannerists | p. 78 |
Eccentrics and Italianized Spaniards | p. 80 |
Studies of anatomy | p. 82 |
The cartoon for the St Anne | p. 84 |
Michelangelo in Florence | p. 86 |
Raphael in Florence | p. 88 |
The Mona Lisa | p. 90 |
Studies on flight and the cosmos | p. 92 |
The lost Leda | p. 94 |
The sacred and the secular | p. 96 |
1513-1519 The Milan of Charles d'Amboise | |
The years of French domination | p. 100 |
The Trivulzio Monument | p. 102 |
Bramantino and Gaudenzio | p. 104 |
The painting of the St Anne | p. 106 |
Studies of optics and perspective | p. 108 |
Leonardo's Milanese contemporaries | p. 110 |
Followers of Leonardo in Lombardy | p. 112 |
St John the Baptist | p. 114 |
The nature of water | p. 116 |
Bacchus | p. 118 |
The last years: Rome and France | |
Leonardo in Rome | p. 122 |
Pope Leo X and Roman culture | p. 124 |
Leonardo at the French court | p. 126 |
The Mannerist debt to Leonardo | p. 128 |
Leonardo's legacy to Europe | p. 130 |
Index | |
Index of places | p. 134 |
Index of people | p. 138 |