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by Charles Nicholl


  239 (bottom right). Giovanni Boltraffio, Madonna and Child, c. 1495 (Collection of G. G. Poldi Pezzoli. Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan)

  243. Leonardo, Anatomical Study of the Human Skull in Sagittal Section, Seen from the Side, 1489 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 19057r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  246. Leonardo, Vitruvian Man (The Proportions of the Human Figure, after Vitruvius), c. 1490 (Galleria dell’Accademia, Venice. Photo: © Scala, Florence – courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali)

  258. Giovanni Boltraffio, Portrait of a Young Woman (Isabella of Aragon?), 1490s (Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan. Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)

  261 (top). Leonardo, Study of Two Masks of Monsters, 1493–5 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12367r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  261 (bottom). After Leonardo (Francesco Melzi?), Grotesque Portrait of an Old Woman, c. 1490–91 (RL 12492r) (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle. The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  268. Leonardo, sketch showing the penumbra of a shadow made by man at an arched window, c. 1490–92 (Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France, Paris (MS A (MS 2172), ir) © Photo RMN – G. Blot)

  274 (top). Leonardo, Profile Drawing of a Young Man (Possibly Salai), c. 1508–10 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12557r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  274 (bottom). Giovanni Boltraffio (or after Boltraffio), Narcissus, c. 1500 (?) (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)

  275. Leonardo, Double Portrait of a Young Man and an Old Man, late 1490s (Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)

  281. Leonardo, Device for Securing the Piece-Mould of a Horse’s Head for Casting, c. 1491–3 (Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid (Codex II (MS 8936), 156v–157r). Photo: © Scala, Florence)

  282. Leonardo, Study of the Diminishing Power of an Unwinding Spring, 1493–7 (Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid (Codex I (MS 8937), 16r))

  294 (top). Leonardo, Preliminary Sketch for The Last Supper, c. 1494–5 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12542r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  294 (bottom left). Leonardo, Study for The Last Supper (Judas), c. 1495 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12547r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  294 (bottom right). Leonardo, Study of St James the Elder for The Last Supper, c. 1495 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12552). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  304. Jacopo de’ Barbari, Portrait of Fra Luca Pacioli, c. 1495 (Museo di Capodimonte, Naples. Photo: © Scala, Florence – courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali)

  305. Leonardo, Dodecahedron, Plate XXVI in De divina proportione by Fra Luca Pacioli (Venice, 1509) (Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Photo: Bridgeman Art Library)

  312 (left). Donato Bramante, Heraclitus and Democritus (detail), c. 1490–97 (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, formerly Casa Panigarola. Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)

  312 (right). Leonardo, Vitruvian Man (The Proportions of the Human Figure, after Vitruvius) (detail), c. 1490 (Galleria dell’Accademia, Venice. Photo: © Scala, Florence – courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali)

  317. Leonardo, Detail of the decoration for the Sala delle Asse, 1498 (Castello Sforzesco, Milan. Photo: Bridgeman Art Library/Alinari)

  318. Detail showing the area of Leonardo’s vineyard, from 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)

  327. Leonardo, Portrait of Isabella d’Este, 1500 (Musée du Louvre, Paris. Photo: © Scala, Florence)

  338. Leonardo and assistants, Madonna of the Yarnwinder (Reford version), c. 1501–4 (?) (Private collection)

  340. Letter from Fra Pietro Novellara to Isabella d’Este, dated 14 April 1501 (Private collection, formerly Archivio Gonzaga, Mantua)

  346 (left). Leonardo, Portrait Drawings of a Bearded Man (Cesare Borgia?) (detail), c. 1502–3 (Biblioteca Reale, Turin (inv. 15573). Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)

  346 (right). Santi di Tito, Portrait of Nicolò Machiavelli, after 1560 (Palazzo Vecchio, Florence. Photo: © Scala, Florence)

  351. Leonardo, Map of Imola, c. 1502–3 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12284). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  355 (top). Leonardo, Design for a Bridge over the Golden Horn from Pera to Constantinople, c. 1502 (Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France (MS L (MS 2182), 66r) © Photo RMN – G. Blot)

  355 (bottom). Bridge built by Norwegian artist Vebjorn Sand, at Aas, Norway, based on Leonardo’s design for a bridge to span the Golden Horn inlet. (© Vebjorn Sand, reproduced by courtesy of Brickfish Creative Services, international project liaison for the Global Leonardo Project. www.vebjornsand.com. Photo: Terje Sten Johansen/Studio S)

  374 (top left). Leonardo, Study of the Heads of Two Soldiers for The Battle of Anghiari, c. 1503–4 (facsimile) (Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence. Photo: © Scala, Florence)

  374 (top right). Leonardo, Study of Horses and Foot Soldiers, Sketch for The Battle of Anghiari, c. 1503–4 (Galleria dell’Accademia, Venice. Photo: © Scala, Florence – courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali)

  374 (bottom). Attr. Peter Paul Rubens after an original by Leonardo, The Battle of Anghiari, before 1550 and c. 1603 (Musée du Louvre, Paris. © Photo RMN – M. Bellot)

  377. Daniele da Volterra, Portrait Bust of Michelangelo, after 1564 (Casa Buonarroti, Florence. Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)

  381. Aristotile da Sangallo after Michelangelo, The Battle of Cascina, c. 1542 (Collection of the Earl of Leicester, Holkham Hall, Norfolk. Photo: Bridgeman Art Library)

  382. Leonardo, Drawing After Michelangelo’s David and Architectural Sketches (detail), c. 1504 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12591r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  397. Leonardo, Study for Kneeling Leda and the Swan, c. 1504–6 (© The Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth. Reproduced by permission of the Chatsworth Settlement Trustees)

  405. Andrea Solario, Portrait of Charles d’Amboise, c. 1507–9 (Musée du Louvre, Paris. © Photo RMN – G. Blot)

  412. Francesco Melzi, Portrait of a Young Man with a Parrot (Self-Portrait), 1540s (?) (Private collection. Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)

  415. Giovanni Rustici, Detail of St John the Baptist, from St John Preaching to a Levite and a Pharisee, c. 1506–9, sculptural group above the east door of the Baptistery, Florence (Photo: © Scala, Florence)

  420. Leonardo, Anatomical Analysis of the Movements of the Shoulder and Neck, c. 1508–10 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 19003v). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  421. Leonardo, Mechanism of the Muscles of the Bodily Orifices Featuring a Distended Vulva, c. 1508–9 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 19095r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  427. Leonardo, Preparatory Drawing for the Burlington Cartoon (Study for The Virgin and Child with St Anne and the Infant St John), c. 1508 (British Museum, London (inv. 1875–6–12–17r). Photo: Alinari Archive, Florence)

  428. Giampietrino (Giovan Pietro Rizzoli), Kneeling Leda, c. 1508–13 (Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Gemädegalerie Alte Meister, Schloss Wilhelmshöhe, Kassel. Photo: AKG Images)

  430. Leonardo, Study for a Funeral Monument to Condittiere Giangiacomo Trivulzio, c. 1509–10 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12356r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  436. Leonardo, Emblem of a Plough, Inscribed ‘hostinato rigore’, c. 1508–9 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12701r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  441 (left). Leonardo, Study for the Head of Leda, c. 1506–9 (The Royal Library, Windso
r Castle (RL 12517r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  441 (right). Anon, Donna Nuda (the ‘Nude Gioconda’), early sixteenth century (State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg)

  449. Leonardo, Bird’s-Eye View of a Ferry Swinging across a River, c. 1512 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12400). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  450. Leonardo, A Seated Old Man with Water Studies, c. 1513 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12579r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  452. Studio of Leonardo, Detail of a sketch of a man’s face, from Sheet of Studies of Horses’ Legs, c. 1510 (?) (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12300v). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  458. Copy after Raphael, Portrait of Giuliano de’ Medici, Duke of Nemours, sixteenth century (The Jules Bach Collection (1949 (49.7.12)). All rights reserved, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)

  468 (top). Leonardo and pupil, Sheet of Sketches of an Announcing Angel and Various Studies of Machines, Horses and Riders (detail), c. 1504–6 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12328r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  468 (bottom). Leonardo (with redrawing by a pupil?), Angelo incarnato, c. 15 (Private collection)

  473. Workshop of Leonardo (?), St John the Baptist (with the Attributes of Bacchus) (or St John in the Desert), c. 1513–19 (Musée du Louvre, Paris. © Photo RMN – C. Jean)

  482. Leonardo, Sheet of Embryological Studies, c. 1510 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 19102r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  487 (left). French School, Portrait of François I, King of France, c. 1515–20 (Musée Condé, Chantilly. Photo: Bridgeman Art Library)

  487 (right). The manor-house at Cloux (now Clos Lucé) (Photo: Author)

  490. Raphael, Portrait of a Cardinal (Cardinal Luigi of Aragon?), sixteenth century (Museo del Prado, Madrid. Photo: Bridgeman Art Library)

  495 (top). Leonardo, Drawing of a Young Man in Costume on Horseback, c. 1513–17 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12574r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  495 (bottom). Leonardo, Drawing of a Man Disguised as a Beggar (or Prisoner), c. 1513–17 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12573r). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  497. Circle of Leonardo in France (Cristoforo Solario or Francesco Melzi?), The Château d’Amboise seen from Clos Lucé, c. 1516–19 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12727). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  501. Leonardo, Pointing Lady in a Landscape (Matelda?), c. 1515–17 (The Royal Library, Windsor Castle (RL 12581). The Royal Collection © 2004, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II)

  Every effort has been made to contact all copyright holders. The publishers will be happy to correct any errors of omission or commission in future editions.

  INDEX

  Pages including relevant illustrations are shown in italic.

  Aas bridge 355–6

  Accattabriga see Buti, Antonio

  Adda river 446, 448–9

  Adda, Count Girolamo d’ 214

  Adige river 433

  Aelius Donatus 214

  Aesop 42, 215, 221

  Africa 216–17

  Agnadello, Battle of 435

  Agnolo, Baccio d’ 332

  Alamanni, Pietro 248, 249

  Alberti, Leon Battista 55, 69–72, 76, 127, 161, 163, 176, 202, 221, 463 Leonardo and 69, 71, 149–50, 221, 223, 224

  Albizzi, Alessandro degli 357–8

  Albizzi, Antonfrancesco degli 457

  Alciato, Andrea 435

  Alessandro (model) 296

  Alexander VI, Pope 342, 353, 354

  Alfei, Giacomo 440–41

  Alfonso, King of Naples 290

  Almedina, Fernando Yañez de la (Ferrando Spagnolo) 389, 469

  Alps 277–80, 417

  Amadori, Albiera di Giovanni (Leonardo’s stepmother) 26, 28, 33, 36, 61, 104, 459–60

  Amadori, Alessandro (Leonardo’s uncle) 62, 104, 375, 459–60

  Amboise 486–93, 502

  Amboise, Charles d’ 403, 404–8, 413, 414, 434, 446

  Amboise, Georges d’ 398

  Ammirato, Scipione 141–2, 144, 145, 383

  Amoretti, Carlo 159, 231, 439

  Anchiano 18–20, 21, 28, 29

  Andrea da Ferrara, Giacomo 271–2, 307, 330

  Angelico, Fra 71, 100, 296

  Anonimo Gaddiano 10 on Anghiari fresco 378, 392

  on Ginevra portrait 107

  on Leonardo as musician 155

  on Leonardo’s appearance 10, 11, 70, 126, 356

  on Leonardo’s departure to Milan 177

  on Leonardo’s mother 27

  on Leonardo’s quarrel with Michelangelo 379–80

  on Lorenzo de’ Medici 165–7

  on lost Adam and Eve and Medusa 104–5

  on Tommaso Masini 141

  on Mona Lisa 367

  omits Leda 396

  on Vision of St Bernard project 133

  Antiquarie prospetiche Romane (anon. poem) 308–10, 387

  Antonio da Bologna 489

  Apelles 474

  Apennines see Romagna

  Apollinaire, Guillaume 369

  Appiano, Jacopo d’ 388

  Aquila, Battista dell’ 466

  Aquilino, Serafino 152, 158

  Arabic science 68

  Archimedes 148, 149, 210, 213, 345, 480

  Aretino, Pietro 152, 250, 440

  Arezzo 339, 345, 360, 372

  Argyropoulos, Joannes 68, 149

  Arigo (assistant) 319

  Aristotle/Aristotelianism 68, 113, 149, 240, 242–3, 265, 308, 417, 419, 481–3, 499

  Arno river and valley 57, 345, 475 canalization schemes 125, 357–60, 385

  Arrigo di Giovanni Tedesco 20

  Arrigoni, Simone 409

  Arte dei Medici, Speziali e Mercai 84, 99

  Arundel, Earl of 5

  Ashburnham, Baron 209

  Astrakhan 135

  Atalante see Migliorotti, Atalante di Manetto

  Atellani family 314–15, 457

  Attavante di Gabriello 356, 378

  Attila flagellum dei 387

  Aubigny, Stuart d’ 322

  Auton, Jean d’ 409

  Avicenna 433

  Babbitt, Isaac 284

  Bacon, Roger 488

  Baiedo 409

  Bandello, Matteo 227, 230, 252, 301, 489 on Last Supper 292–3, 299, 300, 302, 372

  Bandinelli, Baccio 117, 469

  Barbari, Jacopo de’ 303–4

  Barberino, Andrea da 387

  Barcelon, Pinin Brambilla 302

  Baroncelli, Bernardo di Bandino 138–40

  Bascapé, Gualtiero 289, 300, 316

  Basle, St John by follower of Leonardo 469

  Bastiano 465

  Baudelaire, Charles 368

  Bayonne 289

  Bazzi, Giovanni (‘Il Sodoma’) 235

  Beatis, Antonio de 302, 365, 367, 467, 477, 485, 488, 490–92

  Beck, James 171

  Bejazet, Sultan 353–4

  Bella, Stefano della 435

  Bellincioni, Bernardo 152, 154, 177–8, 195, 226, 228–9, 230, 232, 257–8, 440

  Bellini, Giovanni 174, 230, 326

  Beltrami, Luca 313–14, 318

  Bembo, Bernardo 110–13, 114, 145, 366

  Benci family 104, 109, 113, 145, 165, 169

  Benci, Ginevra de’ 107–14, 238, 366, Pl. 6

  Benedetto (assistant) 299

  Benedetto de l’Abaco (Benedetto Arithmeticus) 148

  Benivieni, Antonio 241

  Benois, Léon 135

  Bentivoglio, Giovanni 131–2

  Berenson, Bernard 134, 369

  Bergamo, version of ‘Nude Gioconda’ 441–2

  Bergognone, Il (Ambrogio da Fossano) 195

  Bernazzano 429


  Biagio, Rafaello di 390

  Bibbiena, Cardinal 153

  Billi, Antonio 10, 27, 107, 199, 392

  Bisticci, Vespasiano da 214

  black people in Italy 216–17

  Blois 492

  Boccaccio, Giovanni 222

  Boissif, Artus 486

  Bologna 485–6

  Boltraffio, Giovanni Antonio 134, 233–4, 238–40, 257–8, 271, 273–4, 307, 411, 458

  Bona of Savoy, Duchess of Milan 93, 190

  Bonafé, Leonardo 403

  Bonasana, Marquises of 231

  Borghini, Vincenzo 146

  Borgia family 342–3

  Borgia, Cesare (‘Il Valentino’) 290, 321–2, 342–53

  Borgia, Lucrezia 342, 364

  Borsieri, Geralomo 306

  Bossi, Giuseppe 439–43

  Botro, Il 387, 414

  Botta, Bergonzio 321, 330

  Botti family 135

  Botticelli, Sandro 71, 72, 85–6, 102, 112, 117, 139, 140, 167, 331 Adoration of the Magi 86, 170, 176

  Annunciation 85, 100

  Divine Comedy illustrations 118–19

  Leonardo and 85, 118, 134, 165, 176, 267

  Botticini, Francesco 88

  Braccesi, Alessandro 109, 110, 111

  Bracciolini, Poggio 215, 222

  Bramante, Donato 195, 220, 223, 293, 306, 310, 387, 463–4, 484 Casa Panigarola frescos 11, 310–12

  and Leonardo 195, 202, 224, 306, 309, 335

  Bramantino see Suardi, Bartolomeo

  Bramly, Serge 48, 51, 236, 404, 411

  Brandano, Pacifica 363, 365

  Brianza, La 447

  Bronzino, Agnolo 462

  Brown, David A. 100

  Brunelleschi, Filippo 57, 69, 72, 92, 94–8, 359

  Brunelleschi, Ghigo 387

  Buchi, Benedetto 371

  Bugati, Girolamo 300

  Buonaccorsi, Biagio 359

  Burchiello, Il (Domenico di Giovanni) 151–2

  Burckhardt, Jacob 68, 70

  Buriano 339, 345, 363

  Busti, Bernardino de’ 403

  Buti family (Leonardo’s half-brothers and -sisters) 28–30, 33

  Buti, Antonio (‘Accattabriga’, Leonardo’s stepfather) 27–30, 51, 57

  Buti, Caterina (Leonardo’s mother) 26–30, 33, 41, 52–3, 136, 285–7, 331

  Butinone, Bernardino 196

 

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