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Leonardo Da Vinci

Page 79

by Charles Nicholl


  Vasari, Giorgio 9–10, 71, 72, 76, 398, 465 on Bramante 195

  on Bramantino 314

  on Brunelleschi 70, 92, 94–5

  collection: drawings by Leonardo and Verrocchio 78

  on knot-pattern engravings 42

  on Last Supper 297–8, 302, 404

  on Leo X’s relationship with Leonardo 466–7

  on Leonardo as musician 155–9

  on Leonardo as technologist 145–6

  on Leonardo’s beauty and grace 127

  on Leonardo’s ‘capricious mixtures’ of paint 467

  on Leonardo’s education and apprenticeship 53–4, 61, 78

  on Leonardo’s lack of religion and late conversion 483, 499–500

  on Leonardo’s lizard prank 43, 463–4

  on Leonardo’s love of animals 43

  on Leonardo’s perception of his own gifts 192

  on Leonardo’s pupils in Milan 233

  on Leonardo’s studies (preventing him from painting) 241

  on Leonardo’s uncle 25

  on Leonardo’s visit to Milan (1482) 166

  on Filippo Lippi 301

  Lives of the Artists 9–10, 71, 76, 398

  second edition (1568) 13, 173–4, 411, 483;

  portrait of Leonardo 13, 451

  on lost works of Leonardo:

  Adam and Eve and Medusa 104–5, 460

  buckler 105–7

  on Madonna of the Carnation 102

  on Giuliano de’ Medici 461–2

  on Melzi 411, 452

  on Michelangelo 9, 354–5, 376, 377, 380–81

  on Mona Lisa 333, 361–2, 363

  omits Leda 396

  omits Leonardo’s illegitimacy 27

  on Pacioli 303

  on Rustici 414–15

  on Salai 116, 272, 273

  on Segni 398

  and Sforza Horse project 282, 283

  on della Torre 443

  on Toscanelli 70

  on Verrocchio 9, 72, 81, 87, 103, 139

  on Virgin and Child with St Anne 332–3

  works 415

  Last Judgement 98

  Palazzo Vecchio fresco-cycle 391, 393–4, 485

  Vatican 478 Codex Urbinas 5, 434

  Leonardo, St Jerome see Leonardo (paintings and frescos)

  Villa Belvedere 462–4

  Venezia, Piero Borgi da 214

  Venice 328–31, 435 Accademia:

  Leonardo: drawing of hand 469;

  drawing for San Lorenzo façade 484;

  sketch for Last Supper 295, 296;

  study for Virgin and Child with St Anne 334;

  Vitruvian Man drawing see Leonardo (drawings and maps)

  Colleoni statue 181, 249

  engraving and printing in 40–42, 305–6, 329

  Verrocchio, Andrea del 72–8, 131, 157, 165, 480 influences on 57, 85

  inventory 75–6

  Leonardo’s apprenticeship with see Leonardo (life)

  portraits of 76–7, 86

  Vasari on see Vasari, Giorgio

  works 72, 74–5, 78, 82, 90–91, 100, 103, 172

  Baptism of Christ (with additions by Leonardo) 50, 81, 103, 104, 172, 405, Pl. 7

  bas-reliefs (attrib.) 81

  cathedral orb and cross 94–5

  Colleoni statue 181, 249

  David 74–5, 175–6, 378

  drawing of youth (also attrib. Leonardo) 121–2, 123

  Fortaguerri monument 121, 124

  Madonna and Child paintings 81, 85, 101–2, 124, 134;

  Madonna of the Carnation see Leonardo (paintings and frescos);

  Madonna and Child with Two Angels 80

  Lorenzo de’ Medici 90

  Medici commissions 90, 91, 92–3, 100, 102, 111, 139, 166

  Mercato Vecchio clock 285

  Pistoia altarpiece 124–5

  Tobias and the Angel (with contributions by Leonardo) 88–9, 99, 108, Pl. 4

  Venus and Cupid sketch (with additions attrib. to Leonardo) 111

  Woman with a Bunch of Flowers 108–9, 110, 111, 201

  Vesalius, Andreas 423

  Vespucci, Agostino di 372, 414

  Vespucci, Amerigo di 360

  Vespucci, Matteo di 112

  Vespucci, Piero di 194

  Vezzosi, Alessandro 78

  Vigevano 288, 291, 316, 317

  Vilanis, Battista de 486, 498–9

  Vinci (town and area) 17–18, 20–21, 22–3, 25, 28, 42, 48, 51–3, 385, 387 art in 56–7

  olive industry 37–40

  origin of name 40

  wicker baskets 40–42

  Vinci (da) family 17–30, 28, 29–30 Leonardo’s forebears 21–2

  Leonardo’s mother see Buti, Caterina

  properties 17–19, 21–4, 38

  puns on name 40

  Vinci, Albiera da see Amadori, Albiera di Giovanni

  Vinci, Alessandra da 465

  Vinci, Antonio da (Leonardo’s grandfather) 22–4, 28, 33, 38, 51, 62, 384 record of Leonardo’s birth 19–21

  Vinci, Antonio di Ser Piero da (Leonardo’s half-brother) 107

  Vinci, Domenico da (Leonardo’s half-brother) 385

  Vinci, Francesco da (Leonardo’s uncle) 25, 29–30, 104, 385, 387, 412–14

  Vinci, Giovanni da 22

  Vinci, Ser Giuliano da (Leonardo’s half-brother) 413, 464–5

  Vinci, Leonardo da see Leonardo da Vinci

  Vinci, Lucia da (Leonardo’s grandmother) 23, 36, 56

  Vinci, Ser Piero da (Leonardo’s father) 19, 20, 61–3, 66–7, 73, 140, 493 in the 1500s 331, 332, 356

  birth and early career 23, 24–5, 26–7, 28, 29–30, 33

  buckler episode 105–7

  death and will of 384–5, 387, 412

  first wife see Amadori, Albiera

  legitimate children 19, 107, 331, 384, 387, 412, 499

  and Leonardo’s apprenticeship 61, 67, 74, 78

  and San Donato monastery 168

  second and third marriages 62, 107

  Vinci, Ser Piero da (‘the elder’) 22

  Vinci, Violante (Leonardo’s aunt) 23, 25, 57, 125

  Visconti family 186, 251, 264, 269, 289, 325, 330

  Visconti, Galeazzo 496

  Visconti, Gasparé 306–7, 386–7

  Vitelli, Vitellozzo 345, 350, 352

  Vitruvius 55, 202, 224, 245–7, 262, 309, 406, 433

  Warhol, Andy 370

  Washington, DC, National Gallery: anon. Madonna of the Pomegranate (Dreyfus Madonna) 102

  Leonardo, Ginevra de’ Benci see Leonardo (paintings and frescos)

  Webster, John 489

  Wedekind, Frank 368

  Wilde, Oscar 369

  Wilson, Laurie 470

  Windsor Castle, Royal Library: anon.: announcing angel (sketch by a pupil) 468–9, 472

  sketch of nude young woman (attrib. Leonardo pupil) 441

  Tovaglia villa (copy of Leonardo drawing) 334–5

  Leonardo drawings and manuscripts 4

  Alpine scenes 277

  anatomical 4, 163, 207, 242–5, 279, 420, 441, 481–3

  bear’s hind-leg 279

  cats with dragon 46

  Dante on fame 184

  David (after Michelangelo) 382

  ‘The Deluge’ (notes) 475–6

  elephant-musician 260

  emblems 436–7

  geometrical designs and anatomical studies with list of names 438

  grotesques 261–4, Pl. 18

  on harmonious proportions 245

  horse analysis 249

  infant in profile 199–200

  Madonna and child with infant St John (1470s) 136

  Lorenzo de’ Medici (?) 168

  military chariot with horses 44

  mother and baby with word-lists 136

  Pointing Lady 493, 501

  portable cannon (c. 1484) 190

  portraits of young men (Salai?) 273–4

  property between rivers 387

  rebuses or picture-puzzles (sheets of) 218–19, 25
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  riddles using musical notation 159

  St John the Baptist (silverpoint) 124

  studies: Adoration 175–6;

  Battle of Anghiari 469;

  costumes and profile of Orpheus 434;

  hands 109–11;

  Last Supper 293–7, 302;

  Leda 429, 440–41;

  Madonna of the Yardwinder or Mona Lisa (red chalk) 363;

  Sforza Horse 249, 281

  ‘The sun does not move’ 432

  Val di Chiana map 351–2

  Melzi: copies of Leonardo drawings 410

  portrait of Leonardo (attrib.) 12–13, 410, 451–3, Pl. 15

  view from Clos Lucé (attrib.) 488, 497

  Witelo 269

  Yeats, W. B. 368

  Zacchia, Lorenzo 391–2

  Zenale, Bernardo 196, 309

  Zola, Emile 368

  Zöllner, Frank 367

  Zoroastro see Masini, Tommaso di Giovanni

 

 

 


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