Byzantium, scholars from 68, 149
Calco, Bartolomeo 195, 230
Cammelli, Antonio (‘Il Pistoiese’) 125, 151–5, 158, 160, 178–80, 215
Campana, Giulia 489
Campo Zeppi 28–30, 38, 52
Canigiani, Bernardo di Simone 113
Caparra 146
Caprotti, Giacomo (‘Salai’) 269–76, 299, 337, 347, 366–7, 390, 412, 414, 423, 424, 458, 496, 498 appearance 116, 272, 273–5, 450, 471
as artist 367, 441, 469
character and misdeeds 234, 270–72, 411
and Leonardo’s house in Milan 276, 313, 424, 446, 486
and Leonardo’s will 272, 276, 486, 499
nickname 215, 270
parents 269–70, 272
payments/gifts from Leonardo 271, 275–6, 319, 437, 496
portraits of (?) 273–5
relationship with Leonardo 272, 275–6, 498
Caracciolo, Fra Roberto 101
Caravaggio, Michelangelo Merisi da 105, 440, 472
Cardano, Fazio 319
Cardano, Girolamo 252, 319, 395
Carpaccio, Vittore 229
Carraia del Ferro 447
Casio, Girolamo 233, 238
Casola, Nicola da 387
Castagno, Andrea del 71, 296
Castel del Rio 355
Castiglione, Baldassare 259, 461, 464
Castiglione, Cristofano da 296
Castiglione, Sabba 331
Castracani, Castruccio 22
Cattanei, Giovanna or Vannozza 342
Cattanei, Simonetta 112, 134, 194
Cellini, Benvenuto 117, 157, 463, 486–7
Cellini, Giovanni di Andrea 358, 378
Cennini, Cennino 77, 83, 84, 266
Cesare da Sesto see Sesto
Cesariano, Cesare 219, 309
Cesena 5, 346–7, 352–3
Charles I, King of England 4
Charles V, King of Spain 489
Charles VIII, King of France 64, 290, 309, 321
Chatsworth, Devonshire Collection 396–7, 429
Chaucer, Geoffrey 22
Chiaravalle 224
Chiavenna valley 279
Cianchi, Renzo 387
Ciardi, Roberto Paolo 439
Cimabue 55, 174
Cintio, Giambattista Geraldi 298
Cione family 73, 103 see also Verrocchio, Andrea del
Civitavecchia 484
Clanton, Jimmy 370
Clark, Sir Kenneth (Baron): on drawing of old man 451
on drawings of boys 273
on grotesques 263
on horse studies 249
on Last Supper 302
on Leonardo’s curiosity 7
on Litta Madonna 133, 198
on Madonna of the Carnation 102
on rebuses 218
on Verrocchio 72
on Virgin of the Rocks 198
Clayton, Martin 263
Clement VII, Pope 102
Clos Lucé see Cloux
Cloux (Clos Lucé) 487–93, 496–8
Codex Atlanticus see Leonardo (writings and manuscripts)
Codex Huygens 5, 245
Codex Leicester see Leonardo (writings and manuscripts)
Codex Trivulzianus 53, 213–14, 386
Codex Urbinas 5, 434
Cole, Nat King 361, 370
Compagnia di San Luca 98–9
Condivi, Ascanio 355
Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception 197–9, 201, 403, 409–10, 423–4
Confraternity of St John of the Florentines 483
Constantinople 68, 140, 149, 276; see also Byzantium
Conte, Giovanni 296
Copernicus, Nicolas 432
Coppier, André 363
Corio, Bernardino 93, 321
Correggio, Niccolò da 41
Corsali, Andrea 43, 478
Corte, Bernardino da 320
Costa, Lorenzo 326, 494
Costereccia 23
Credi, Lorenzo di 72, 75, 102, 124, 331 and Leonardo 86–7, 124–5, 165
Cremona (town) 159, 438
Cremona, La 438–43, 450, 488
Crivelli, Biagino 457
Crivelli, Lucrezia 234, 237, 457, 492
Crivelli, Protasio 234
Crumb, Robert 262
Curzio, Ambrogio 321
Curzio, Lancino 283
Cusano, Girolamo 307
Cusano, Niccolò 307
Czartoryski family 231–2
Daddi, Bernardo 133
Dagomari, Paolo 214
Daniel, Samuel 435
Dante Alighieri 40, 379–80 Divine Comedy 117–18, 184, 493
Dati, Leonardo 372–3
Dei, Benedetto 63, 65, 193–4, 216, 226
Desio 447
Domenico da Prato, Ser 387
Domenico Veneziano 71
Donatello 56–7, 64, 65, 71, 72, 116, 249, 378
Doni, Antonio Francesco 392
Doni, Maddalena 335, 364
Doria d’Angri, Prince 391–2
Dreyfus Madonna (anon.) 102
Drumlanrig Castle 339
Duccio, Agostino di 377
Duchamp, Marcel 370
Dürer, Albrecht 305
Dylan, Bob 370
Ebreo, Guglielmo 157
Egidius Romanus 488
Eliot, T. S. 369, 474
emblems 435–7
Embolden, William 135
Empoli 57, 359
Epicurus 432
Este family 317, 325, 413
Este, Alfonso d’, Duke of Ferrara 259, 398, 472
Este, Beatrice d’, Duchess of Milan 227–8, 230, 237, 238, 239, 259, 293, 300, 316, 326
Este, Ercole d’, Duke of Ferrara 290–91
Este, Cardinal Ippolito d’ 413–14
Este, Isabella d’, Marchioness of Mantua 41, 158, 160, 230–31, 325–9, 397–8 and Leonardo 333, 336–7, 340, 341–2, 373–5, 494
portraits by Leonardo 326, 328–9, 336, 341, 363, 366, 375
studiolo 326, 336, 341, 375, 397
Eton College library 111
Evans, Ray 361
Fabriano, Gentile da 50
Fermo, Olivorotto da 352
Ferrando Spagnolo see Almedina, Fernando Yañez de la
Ferrante di Aragona, King of Naples 230, 290
Ferrara, Dukes of see Este
Ferrari, Ambrogio 316
Ferrucci, Francesco di Simone 75, 126
Ferrucci, Simone 377
Ficino, Marsilio, and his circle 69, 109, 111, 112–13, 117, 145, 149, 158, 165, 194, 215, 308, 310–11, 432
Fiesole 32, 394–5
Figino, Girolamo 245
Filarete, Antonio 187, 202, 223
Filelfo 215
Filippo, Giandomenico di 372
Fioravanti, Aristotele 146
Fioravanti di Domenico 116, 122–4, 125, 133
Fiore di virtù 215, 229
Florence 60–72 architecture 64–6, 71, 73, 94–8, 170, 484
Badia 133, 416
Baptistery 146, 415
Bargello 64, 67, 73, 139, 140, 460 Verrocchio: David 74–5, 175–6, 378;
Woman with a Bunch of Flowers 108–9, 110, 111, 201
Biblioteca Riccardiana, Martini MS with Leonardo’s notes 268
and Cesare Borgia 343–4, 349–53
catasti 23, 27, 28, 33, 109, 114, 118
cathedral 99, 224, 484 dome 94–8, 145, 480
‘Chain map’ 62–4, 418
guilds 62, 84, 98–9, 157
homosexuality in 114–18
jousts and shows 90–92, 284, 406
Leo X in 484–5
Leonardo and 60, 94, 193, 483, 484–5, 497
lion-house 162–3, 497
Mercato Vecchio 285
music in 157–8
Ognissanti 297
painters and sculptors in 71–3, 83, 84, 98–103, 241, 296–7, 376–8, 484
Palazzo Martelli 414–15
Palazzo Medici 64, 65, 66, 83, 93, 98, 169, 170, 484
Palazzo della Mercanzia 81
Palazzo Vecchio 133, 346 Council Hall (Sala del Maggiore Consiglio) 371–6, 380–82, 385, 389–94, 485
philosophy and science in 68–71, 113, 117, 145, 148–9, 158, 194, 308, 310–11, 386, 414
poetry and literature in 151–5, 218
Ponte alle Grazie (Rubaconte) 417–18
regeneration plans 484
sacre rappresentazioni 92, 94, 258
San Lorenzo 100, 484
San Marco sculpture-gardens 165–6, 376
San Miniato del Monte 170
San Salvatore dell’ Osservanza 335
Santa Maria Novella 83, 161–2, 170, 174, 176, 371–2, 375–6, 386, 460, 499
Santa Maria Nuova, Ospedale di 322, 331, 341, 356, 403, 416, 419, 422
Santissima Annunziata 332–4, 356–7, 364
Sant’Onofrio, Ospedale di 380, 385
Uffizi: anon., drawing of dragon 106 Botticelli, Adoration of the Magi 170
Leonardo: Adoration of the Magi see Leonardo (paintings and frescos);
Annunciation see Leonardo (paintings and frescos);
drawings with flying-machine 150–51;
‘Fioravanti folio’ 122–4, 125, 133, 175–6;
head of a child (related to Benois Madonna) 135, 137–8;
old man and beautiful youth (drawing) 273–5;
pen-and-ink landscape 49–53, Pl. 2
Verrocchio: Baptism of Christ (with Leonardo) 50, 81, 103, Pl. 7; Venus and Cupid sketch III
Via delle Prestanze 62, 66
Foix, Gaston de 446, 447
Fontainebleau 199, 472
Foppa, Vincenzo 195
Forster, E. M. 369
Forster codices see Leonardo (writings and manuscripts)
Fossombrone 347, 350
Francesco Napoletano see Galli, Francesco
Franco, Matteo 154
François I, King of France 199, 483–7, 494 and Leonardo 231, 285, 361, 466, 485–7, 493–4, 500
Freud, Sigmund 32–4, 115, 132, 272, 285–6, 320, 342
Frezzi, Federigo 215
Friuli 329
Fumagalli, Giuseppina 115
Gaddi family 10
Gaddi, Agnolo 57
Gaddi, Taddeo 296
Gaffurio, Franchino 236–7
Galen 240, 444
Gallerani, Cecilia 226–32, 235, 237, 248, 325, 326, 365, 447, 494
Galli, Francesco (‘Il Napoletano’) 234, 299
Gates, Bill 416
Gautier, Théophile 368
Gavina, Il 10, 11–12, 357, 379, 380
Geneva (‘Ginevra’) 486
Geri, Alfredo 369–70
Gherardini, Lisa di Antonmaria see Giocondo, Lisa del
Ghiberti, Buonaccorso 148
Ghiberti, Lorenzo 54–5, 72, 84
Ghirlandaio, David 378
Ghirlandaio, Domenico 10, 71–2, 83, 99, 120, 165, 167, 174, 297, 331, 379, 460
Giampietrino see Rizzoli, Giovanni Pietro
Gibson, William 370
Gilliam, Terry 370
Gillray, James 262
Giocondo, Fra 245
Giocondo, Francesco del 361, 364–7
Giocondo, Lisa del 361, 363–7, 461
Giorgi, Rosa di 393
Giorgio (German assistant) 478–80
Giorgione (Giorgio da Castelfranco) 330
Giotto 55
Giovanni degli Specchi 479–80, 481
Giovanni, Antonio di 372
Giovanni, Bertoldo di 165
Giovio, Paolo 10, 27, 126, 241, 260, 282, 434, 435, 451, 462 on Leonardo as teacher 78, 233
on Leonardo’s studies 241, 433, 443–4
Giraldi, Cristoforo 264, 298
Giraldi, Flavio Antonio 398
Giulio (German metalworker) 235, 284, 290
Goethe, J. W. von 428, 439
Goncourt brothers 368
Gonzaga family 325–6, 494, 496
Gonzaga, Francesco II, Marquis of Mantua 325, 334
Gorizia 329
Gozzadini, Tommaso 34
Gozzoli, Benozzo 65, 71, 83, 170, 173
Grazzini, Anton Francesco 144
Greek science and philosophy 68
Green, André 469–70
Gualanda, Isabella 363, 365, 492
Guicciardini, Francesco 138, 342
Guidi, Counts 17
Guiducci, Captain 358
Guiscardi, Mariolo de’ 315
Guznago, Lorenzo 328, 363, 366
gypsies 263
Habsburg Collection 199
Hamilton, Gavin 424
Hauser, Arnold 68
Hawkwood, Sir John 22
Hebborn, Eric 426
Hermetic philosophies 243
Hippocrates 240
Hoefnagel, Josef 189, 318
Holkham Hall 381
Hollar, Wenceslas 262, 263
Holy League 446, 447
Horace 26
Houssaye, Arsène 225, 231, 502
Imola 349–52, 355
India 43, 259, 433, 478
Ioditti (assistant) 299
Isabella of Aragon 225, 230, 257–8, 289, 290, 320, 496
Isonzo river 329
Istanbul, Topkapi Museum 353
Jacopo (German apprentice) 385
Jones, Inigo 238
Jonson, Ben 2–3, 54
Julius II, Pope 353, 355, 381, 407, 446, 458
Kassel 428
Kemp, Martin 100, 191, 210–12, 493
Landino, Cristoforo 69, 71, 110, 111, 118, 149, 152, 214
Landucci, Luca 51, 95, 138–9, 162–3, 378, 385, 484
Lanfredini, Francesca 62
Larciano 49
Lecco 277
Leicester, Thomas Coke, Earl of 416
Leloup, Estienne 487
Lemaire, Jean 126
Leno, Giuliano 462
Leo X, Pope (Giovanni de’ Medici) 457–8, 460–61, 489 and Leonardo 466–7, 483–6
Leonardo da Vinci (Leonardo di Ser Piero da Vinci):
APPEARANCE 10, 11–13, 356–7 clean-shaven or bearded 11–12, 126, 399
hair 11, 126, 127, 485
physical beauty 74, 126–7
spectacles 345, 460, 480
ARCHITECTURE 191 d’Amboise villa and gardens 405–7
bell-towers 224
Duchess of Milan’s pavilion project 224–6
early projects 222–6
Florence regeneration schemes 484
Guiscardi mansion 315
ideal city 202–3, 209, 316, 493
Milan cathedral project 97–8, 222–4
in notebooks 209–10
, 213, 224–5, 310 palace ground-plan 251
Romorantin schemes 329, 493–4, 497
Santa Maria della Fontana 409
stables 314
‘temple’ church designs 224–5, 310
temple of Venus with landscape 406
Villa Melzi projects 448–9 see also technology below
ASSISTANTS, PUPILS, SERVANTS on Anghiari fresco 378, 389–90
Arigo 319
Atalante see Migliorotti, Atalante
Benedetto 299
Fanfoia, Il 458–9
in Florence 131–2, 141–5, 232, 332, 337
Galeazzo 288
Giorgio 478–80
Jacopo the German 385
Lorenzo see Lorenzo di Marco
Mathurine 1, 286, 488, 497, 499
in Milan 134, 232–5, 238, 284, 286, 288, 299, 307, 319, 424
Paolo see Paolo di Leonardo da Vinci
in Rome 458–9, 478–80
Salai see Caprotti, Giacomo
Vilanis, Battista de 486, 498–9
Zoroastro see Masini, Tommaso di Giovanni see also Melzi, Francesco
BIOGRAPHIES, EARLY 9–11 see also Anonimo Gaddiano; Billi; Giovio; Lomazzo; Vasari
CHARACTERISTICS aloof 127, 221, 341, 418
courtesy and grace 56, 69, 126–7, 380
dandy 69, 94, 127
fastidious
127, 202, 253, 445
fears of plagiarism 96
frugality 127, 155, 383, 477–8
heretical, more philosopher than Christian 483
horseman 127, 250, 383
humour 105–6, 185–6, 206, 220–22, 262–4, 420
interest in superstitions 213, 263, 383–4, 423
left-handed 58, 88
love of countryside 26, 73, 447
melancholy 3, 113, 127, 149, 155, 160, 180, 311–12
musician 155–60, 218, 253
physical strength and dexterity 127
psychiatric analyses of 30, 171, 334, 342, 418, 421
and religion 483, 499–500
rigorously experimental 436
sexuality: affair with La Cremona (?) 116, 438–43;
distaste and negativity about sex 27, 206–7, 209, 442, 469–70, 472;
homosexuality 11, 87, 114–25, 127, 132, 166–7, 206–7, 263, 271–5, 295, 411;
incest dreams and fantasies 31–5, 217;
and prostitutes 269, 439–43;
suggestions of effeminacy 94, 127;
and women and female anatomy 420–22, 442–3
as teacher 78, 233, 241
vegetarianism 1, 43, 141, 383, 477–8
walker 127
DEPICTIONS OF 12–13 in Bramante fresco (?) 11, 310–12
in a Ferrucci sketchbook 75
in Giovio 451, 452
in Lomazzo painting of Heraclitus and Democritus (attrib.) 312
Melzi portrait (attrib.) 12–13, 410–11, 451–2, Pl. 15
self-portraits see drawings and maps and paintings and frescos below
sketches by pupils (?) 399, 452
Vasari 451, 452, 485
Verrocchio’s David (?) 74–5, 175–6, 378
DRAWINGS AND MAPS allegories: Il Moro and Envy 289; Pleasure and Pain 204–7, 220, 406, 437;
Virtue and Envy 204, 207
Alpine scenes 277
anatomical 4, 27, 163, 240–47, 382, 419–23, 433, 442, 443–5, 448, 490–91, 499; female genitalia and anus 420–22;
heart 444, 445, 448;
mouths and lips 363, 422;
pregnancy 421–2, 481–3;
shoulder and neck 420
Angelo incarnato 116, 463, 468–72, 474
antique buildings and sculptures (lost book) 335–6
Aristotle and Phyllis (?) 207–9
armoured cars 190–91
artillery 153
Atalante portrait (lost) 159, 236
Il Bagnetto 135–6, 137
Baroncelli hanging 140, 167
bat 399
bears 279
birds 32, 395
blurred peripheries 237
Cesare Borgia (?) 345–6
cartoons: for paintings see under paintings and frescos below;
tapestry 104
Castel Sant’ Angelo (?) 335
Leonardo Da Vinci Page 75