Illustrations
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Leonardo, Perspective Study for the Background of The Adoration of the Magi, 1481 (Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)
COLOUR PLATES (NUMBERS REFER TO PLATE NUMBER)
1. Leonardo, Detail of young man from the right-hand side of The Adoration of the Magi, 1481–2 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo: © Scala, Florence – courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali)
2. Leonardo, View towards Monsummano, 5 August 1473, 1473 (Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo: © Scala, Florence)
3. Leonardo, Study of a Lily (Lilium candidum), mid-1470s (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12418r). Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)
4. Studio of Verrocchio (and Leonardo?), Tobias and the Angel (detail), c. 1470-72 (© The National Gallery, London)
5. Leonardo, The Annunciation, 1470–74 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo: © Scala, Florence – courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali)
6. Leonardo, Ginevra de’ Benci, c. 1476–8 (Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund. Image © Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
7. Verrocchio (and Leonardo?), The Baptism of Christ, c. 1472–5 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)
8. Attr. Leonardo, Terracotta Angel (Angelo dell’Annunciazione), 1478–80 (Pieve di San Gennaro, Capannori. Photo: Sally Nicholl)
9. Leonardo, Benois Madonna, c. 1478–82 (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Photo: © Scala, Florence)
10. Leonardo, The Adoration of the Magi, 1481–2 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo: © Scala, Florence – courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali)
11. Leonardo, The Virgin of the Rocks (The Virgin and Child with the Infant St John and an Angel), 1483–5 (Musée du Louvre, Paris. © Photo RMN – H. Lewandowski)
12. Leonardo, Lady with an Ermine (Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani), c. 1488–90 (Czartoryski Collection, Muzeum Narodwe, Cracow. Photo: © Scala, Florence)
13. Leonardo (and Giovanni Boltraffio?), Portrait of a Musician, c. 1488–90 (Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan. Photo: © Scala, Florence)
14. Leonardo, La Belle Ferronnière, c. 1495 (Musée du Louvre, Paris. Photo: © Scala, Florence)
15. Attrib. Francesco Melzi, Profile Drawing of Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1510–12 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12726). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
16. Leonardo, Horse Studies, c. 1493–4 (?) (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12321r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
17. Leonardo, Bird’s eye map of Val di Chiana, c. 1502–4 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle, (RL 12278r). The Royal Collection © 2005, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
18. Leonardo, Five Grotesque Heads (detail), c. 1494 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12495r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
19. Leonardo, Studies of the Muscles of the Lips (detail), c. 1506–8 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 19055v). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
20. Copy after Leonardo, Study for the Hands of Isabella d’Este, early sixteenth century (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Photo: Bridgeman Art Library)
21. Leonardo, Verso of Portrait of Isabella d’Este, c. 1500 (Musée du Louvre, Paris. © Photo RMN – M. Bellot)
22. Leonardo and assistants, Detail of the bridge from Madonna of the Yarnwinder (Reford version), c. 1501–7 (?) (Private collection)
23. Leonardo, Mona Lisa, c. 1503–7 (and c. 1513–15 (?)) (Musée du Louvre, Paris. © Photo RMN – Lewandowski)
24. Leonardo, cartoon for The Virgin and Child with St Anne and the Infant St John (the Burlington House cartoon), c. 1507–8 (© The National Gallery, London)
25. Studio of Leonardo, Detail of a sketch of a man’s face, from Sheet of Studies of Horses’ Legs, c. 1510 (?). Shown here as a mirror-image of the original, reproduced correctly on p. 452 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12300v). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
26. Giampietrino (Giovan Pietro Rizzoli), Detail of St Jerome from Madonna and Child with St Jerome and St John the Baptist, c. 1515 (San Pietro e San Paolo, Ospedaletto Lodigiano)
27. Leonardo, Storm Clouds over a River or Lake and Trees (detail), c. 1514 (?) (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12379r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
28. Leonardo, St John the Baptist, after 1510 (1514?) (Musée du Louvre, Paris. © Photo RMN – C. Jean)
29. Follower of Leonardo (Cesare da Sesto?) Leda and the Swan, c. 1505–15 (?) (Collection of the Earl of Pembroke, Wilton House Trust, Salisbury. Photo: Bridgeman Art Library)
30. Leonardo, Studies of the Foetus in the Womb and of the Structure and Size of Female Genitalia (detail), c. 1510–12 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 19101r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
BLACK-AND-WHITE ILLUSTRATIONS (NUMBERS REFER TO PAGE NUMBERS)
6. Leonardo, pages from Paris MS B showing a test for the wing of a flying-machine (Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France, Paris (MS B (MS 2173), 88v-89r). Photo: © RMN – R. J. Ojeda)
8. Leonardo, Sheet of Studies of Geometric Figures and the Bust of an Old Man in Profile (detail), c. 1490 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12283r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
12. Leonardo, Head of a Bearded Man (Self-Portrait), c. 1512–18 (?) (Biblioteca Reale, Turin. Photo: © Scala, Florence)
18 (top). Contemporary photograph of Vinci, Tuscany (Photo: © Corbis/David Lees)
18 (bottom). Photograph, c. 1900, of the alleged birthplace of Leonardo in Anchiano, in its pre-restored appearance
24. Leonardo, Map of a River Bed (detail), c. 1506–7 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12676r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
32. Leonardo, drawings of birds in flight from On the Flight of Birds (Biblioteca Reale, Turin. Photo: © Scala, Florence)
36. Follower of Leonardo, after a design by Leonardo, Leda and the Swan (detail), 1505–15 (?) (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)
37. Leonardo, The Virgin and Child with St Anne, c. 1502–13 (?), marked to show Oskar Pfister’s ‘hidden bird’ (Musée du Louvre, Paris. © Photo RMN)
39 (top). Leonardo, Study of Figures Working, c. 1506–8 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12644r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
39 (bottom). Leonardo, Design fora Colour-Grinding Machine, c. 1504–5 (Codex Atlanticus (CA 765r). Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan)
41 (top). Engraving after Leonardo, design for an emblem inscribed ‘Academia Leonardi Vinci’, c. 1500 (?) (Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan (9596B))
41 (bottom). Leonardo, Study for the Head of Leda (detail), c. 1506–9 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12516r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
45 (top left). Leonardo, Sheet of Studies of an Ox, a Donkey and other Figures, c. 1478–80 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12362r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
45 (top right). Leonardo, Study of a Horse and Rider for The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1481 (Private collection. Photo: Bridgeman Art Library)
45 (bottom left). Leonardo, Study of a Dog and Cat, c. 1480 (© Copyright the Trustees of The British Museum, London (inv. 1895–9–15–477))
45 (bottom right). Leonardo, Study of the Proportions of a Dog’s Head, 1497–9 (Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France, Paris (MS I (MS 2180), 48r). Photo: © RMN – Le Mage)
48 (top left). Leonardo, View towards Monsummano, 5 August 1473 (detail), 1473 (Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo: © Scala, Florence)
48 (top centre). Leonardo, detail of Monsummano from Map of the Arno Valley Showing Proposed Can
al Route, c. 1503–4 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12685r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
48 (top right). Contemporary photograph of the tump at Monsummano (Photo: Author)
52. Leonardo, The Annunciation (detail) 1472 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo: © Scala, Florence – courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali)
58 (top). Leonardo, Extract from notebook entry featuring his signature, c. 1490 (Codex Atlanticus (CA 520r). Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan)
58 (bottom). Leonardo, Extract from notebook entry featuring his signature, c. 1493 (Codex Forster (III, 141, 62v ). Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Photo: © Victoria & Albert Museum Picture Library)
62–3. Anon, The ‘Chain map’ of Florence (Carta della Catena), c. 1470–72 (Museo di Firenze Com’era, Florence. Photo: © Scala, Florence)
75 (left). Andrea del Verrocchio, David, c. 1466–70 (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence. Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)
75 (right). Anonymous artist in the circle of Verrocchio and Lorenzo di Credi, study of a naked man in the pose of David, from a sketchbook attributed to Francesco di Simone Ferrucci, early 1480s (?) (Cabinet des Dessins, Musée du Louvre, Paris (RF 451r) © Photo RMN)
79. Leonardo, Drapery Study for a Seated Figure, c. 1475–80 (?) (Cabinet des Dessins, Musée du Louvre, Paris (RF 2255). © Photo RMN – J. G. Berizzi)
81. Leonardo, Drawing of a Warrior in Profile, c. 1472 (© Copyright the Trustees of The British Museum, London (inv. 1895–9–15–474))
86 (top left). School of Verrocchio, Portrait of a Man (Portrait of Verrocchio?), 1470s (Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence (250Er). Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)
86 (top right). Sandro Botticelli, The Adoration of the Magi (detail), c. 1478 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo: © Scala, Florence – courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali)
86 (bottom left). Pietro Perugino, Self-Portrait, 1500 (Palazzo dei Priori, Collegio del Cambio, Perugia. Photo: © Scala, Florence)
86 ( bottom right). Lorenzo di Credi, Self-Portrait, 1488 (Widener Collection. Image © Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC)
89. Studio of Verrocchio (and Leonardo?), Tobias and the Angel, c. 1470–72 (?) (© The National Gallery, London)
90. Andrea del Verrocchio, Portrait Bust of Lorenzo de’ Medici, c. 1480 (Palazzo Medici-Riccardi, Florence. Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)
97 (top). Filippo Brunelleschi, The dome of the cathedral (Santa Maria del Fiore), Florence, 1420–46 (Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)
97 (bottom). Leonardo, Design for a Reversible Hoist, 1478 (Codex Atlanticus (CA 391v). Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan)
102. Leonardo, Madonna of the Carnation, c. 1472–8 (?) (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Alte Pinakothek, Munich. Photo: © Scala, Florence)
109 (left). Andrea del Verrocchio, La Dama del Mazzolino (Woman with a Bunch of Flowers), c. 1476 (Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence. Photo: © Scala, Florence – courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali)
109 (right). Leonardo, Study of Hands (Study for Ginevra de’ Benci?), c. 1476–8 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12558r). Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)
119. Sandro Botticelli, Inferno XVI (detail), illustration for Dante’s Divine Comedy, mid-1490s (facsimile of original drawing in the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Rome, reproduced in F. Lippmann, Drawings by Botticelli for Dante’s Divina Commedia (London, 1896))
122. Attributed to Leonardo in Verrocchio’s workshop, Head of the Youthful Christ, 1470s? (Collection Aglietti-Gallendt, Rome)
123. Circle of Verrocchio, Head of a Young Man, c. 1475 (Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. Photo: © Scala, Florence)
137 (top left). Attributed to Leonardo, Study of a Child’s Head or Putto (Preparatory Sketch for the Benois Madonna), c. 1478–80 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)
137 (top right). Leonardo, Young Woman Bathing an Infant (Il Bagnetto), c. 1480–83 (Faculdade de Belas Artes, Universidade do Porto, Porto (inv. 99.1.1174))
137 (bottom left). Leonardo, Sketches of a Child with a Cat, c. 1478–80 (British Museum London (inv. 1857–1–10–1v). Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)
137 (bottom right). Leonardo, Study for a Madonna and Child with a Cat, c. 1478–80 (British Museum, London (inv. 1856–6–21–1r). Photo: Alinari Archive Florence)
140. Leonardo, Sketch of Hanged Man (Bernardo di Bandino Baroncelli), 1479 (Musée Bonnat, Bayonne. © Photo RMN – R. G. Ojeda)
147 (top). Leonardo, Design for a Device for Unhinging a Prison Door from the Inside (detail), c. 1480–82 (Codex Atlanticus (CA 34r). Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan)
147 (bottom). Leonardo, Hydraulic Devices (Archimedean Screw) and other Studies (detail), c. 1478–80 (Codex Atlanticus (CA 1069r). Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan)
150. Leonardo, Sheet of Studies of Water Flowing Past Obstacles and a Sketch of a Whirlpool, c. 1508–10 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12660v). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
151. Leonardo, Sketch of a Flying-Machine, c. 1478–80 (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence (447Ev). Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)
156. Attributed to Ambrogio de Predis, Angel Playing a Lira da Braccio, c. 1483 – 1508 (© The National Gallery, London)
157 (top left). Leonardo, Drawing of a Stringed Instrument with Monster’s Head (Fantastical Lyre), c. 1487–90 (Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France, Paris (MS 2184 – Ashburnham, formerly MS B), fol. CR). © Photo RMN – Le Mage)
157 (top right). Leonardo, Riddles in the Form of Musical Notation, c. 1487–90 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12697). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
161. Leonardo, St Jerome, c. 1480 (Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican. Photo: © Scala, Florence)
162 (top). Leonardo, Detail of the top right-hand corner of St Jerome, c. 1480 (Pinacoteca Vaticana, Vatican. Photo: © Scala, Florence)
162 (bottom). Leon Battista Alberti, façade of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, completed c. 1472 (Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)
175 (top left). Andrea Verrocchio, David (detail), c. 1466–70 (Museo Nazionale dell Bargello, Florence. Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)
175 (top right). Leonardo, Doodle of a man’s profile from A Sheet of Sketches, Diagrams and Notes, 1478 (Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)
175 (bottom left). Leonardo, Sketch for the Commentatore of The Adoration of the Magi, c. 1481 (Musée du Louvre, Paris. Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)
175 (bottom right). Leonardo, Hydraulic Devices and Study of Figure in Front of a Perspectograph (detail), c. 1478–80 (Codex Atlanticus (CA 5r). Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan)
179. Leonardo, List of Works and Materials, c. 1482 (Codex Atlanticus (CA 324r). Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan)
188. Leonardo, Schematic Map of Milan, c. 1508–10 (Codex Atlanticus (CA 199v). Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan)
189 (top). Lombard School, Portrait of Ludovico Sforza, detail from The Sforza Altarpiece, early 1490s (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan. Photo: © Scala, Florence – courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali)
189 (bottom). Map of Milan, engraving by Josef Hoefnagel from Civitates Orbis Terrarum, ed. Georg Braun and Frans Hogenburg, c. 1572 (The Stapleton Collection. Photo: Bridgeman Art Library)
191. Leonardo, Drawing of a Scythed Chariot and an Armoured Car (detail), c. 1487–8 (British Museum, London. Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)
192. Leonardo, Study for a Hoist and for a Cannon in an Ordnance Foundry, c. 1487 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12647r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
200 (left). Leonardo and Ambrogio de Predis, The Virgin of the Rocks (The Virgin with the Infant Saint John Adoring the Infant Christ Accompanied by an Angel) (detail), c. 1495–9 and 1506–8 (© The National Gallery, Lond
on)
200 (right). Leonardo, Head and Shoulders Drawing of a Naked Infant in Profile, c. 1495–7 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12519r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
203. Leonardo, Notes and Drawings for an Ideal City, c. 1487–8 (Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France, Paris (MS B (Ashburnham), 15v–6r) © Photo RMN R. G. Ojeda)
204. Leonardo, Sketches and Notes on Flying-Machines and Parachutes (detail), c. 1485 (Codex Atlanticus (CA 1058v). Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan)
205. Leonardo, Allegory of Pleasure and Pain, c. 1484–6 (Governing Body of Christ Church, Oxford (inv. JBS 17v). Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)
208. Leonardo, Allegory of Envy Riding on Death, c. 1484–6 (Governing Body of Christ Church, Oxford (inv. JBS 17r). Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)
211 (top). Leonardo, Study for a Flying-Machine, c. 1487–90 (Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France, Paris (MS B (MS 2173), 74). © Photo RMN – Bulloz)
211 (bottom). Leonardo, Design for a Vertically Standing Flying-Machine, c. 1487–90 (Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France, Paris (MS B (MS 2173), 8or). © Photo RMN – Bulloz)
219. Leonardo, Large Sheet of Puzzle-Writing, Chiefly in the Form of Pictograms Featuring a Pun on the Name ‘Leonardo’ (detail), c. 1487–90 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12692V). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)
225. Leonardo, Plan for a Centralized Church, 1487–90 (Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France, Paris (MS 2184 – Ashburnham, formerly MS B), 5v). © Photo RMN – Bulloz)
239 (top left). Leonardo, Study for the Head of a Woman (Study for the Litta Madonna), c. 1488–90 (Cabinet des Dessins, Musée du Louvre, Paris. © Photo RMN – M. Bellot)
239 (top right). Leonardo, Litta Madonna, c. 1488–90 (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg. Photo: © Scala, Florence)
239 (bottom left). Ambrogio de Predis, Lady with a Pearl Necklace (Portrait of Beatrice d’Este), c. 1490 (?) (Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan. Photo: © Scala, Florence)
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