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Leonardo Da Vinci

Page 75

by Charles Nicholl


  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

 

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