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)
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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
Leonardo Da Vinci Page 74