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Leonardo da Vinci

By Gabriel Séailles

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Leonardo’s early life was spent in Florence, his maturity in Milan, and the last three years of his life in France. Leonardo’s teacher was Verrocchio. First he was a goldsmith, then a painter and sculptor: as a painter, representative of the very scientific school of draughtsmanship; more famous as a sculptor, being the creator of the Colleoni statue at Venice, Leonardo was a man of striking physical attractiveness, great charm of manner and conversation, and mental accomplishment. He was well grounded in the sciences and mathematics of the day, as well as a gifted musician. His skill in draughtsmanship was extraordinary; shown by his numerous drawings as well as by his comparatively few paintings. His skill of hand is at the service of most minute observation and analytical research into the character and structure of form. Leonardo is the first in date of the great men who had the desire to create in a picture a kind of mystic unity brought about by the fusion of matter and spirit. Now that the Primitives had concluded their experiments, ceaselessly pursued during two centuries, by the conquest of the methods of painting, he was able to pronounce the words which served as a password to all later artists worthy of the name: painting is a spiritual thing, cosa mentale. He completed Florentine draughtsmanship in applying to modelling by light and shade, a sharp subtlety which his predecessors had used only to give greater precision to their contours. This marvellous draughtsmanship, this modelling and chiaroscuro he used not solely to paint the exterior appearance of the body but, as no one before him had done, to cast over it a reflection of the mystery of the inner life. In the Mona Lisa and his other masterpieces he even used landscape not merely as a more or less picturesque decoration, but as a sort of echo of that interior life and an element of a perfect harmony. Relying on the still quite novel laws of perspective this doctor of scholastic wisdom, who was at the same time an initiator of modern thought, substituted for the discursive manner of the Primitives the principle of concentration which is the basis of classical art. The picture is no longer presented to us as an almost fortuitous aggregate of details and episodes. It is an organism in which all the elements, lines and colours, shadows and lights, compose a subtle tracery converging on a spiritual, a sensuous centre. It was not with the external significance of objects, but with their inward and spiritual significance, that Leonardo was occupied.

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1Introduction

63Study for an Equestrian Monument, 1508-1511

2Head of the Virgin in Three-Quarter View Facing Right, 1508-1512

64Study for the Trivulzio Monument, 1508-1511

3Biography

65Nude Study, c. 1508-1511

4The Virgin and Child with Two Angels, Leonardo da Vinci and the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio, probably 1470s

66Cow Uterus, c.1508

5Baptism of Christ, Leonardo da Vinci and Andrea del Verrocchio, 1470-1476

67Cardiovascular System, c.1508

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6Virgin and Child (Madonna of the Carnation), c.1473

68The Organs of Women, c. 1509

7Study of Draperies for the Arm of an Angel in the Annunciation, c.1472

69The Madonna and Child with the Infant Baptist, and Heads in Profile, c.1478

8Lily, 1480-1485

70St Anne, Mary and the Christ Child, c.1508

9The Annunciation, 1472

71Head of the Virgin, 1508-1512

10Arno Landscape, 1473

72The Head of St Anne, c.1510-1515

11Ginevra de’ Benci, c. 1474/1478

73The Virgin, Christ Child and Saint Anne, 1510

12The Madonna and Child (The Benois Madonna), 1478

74The Bust of a Man, Full Face, and the Head of a Lion, c.1505-1510

13Virgin and Child with Cat, c.1478-1481

75Allegory of the Wolf and the Eagle, c.1510

14Study of the Madonna and Child with a Cat, c.1478

76The Surface Anatomy of the Shoulder, c.1510-1511

15Studies of a Dog’s Paw, 1490

77Muscles of the Thorax and Shoulders of a Man, 1510

16Bust of a Warrior in Profile, c.1475-1480

78Muscles of the Arms, Shoulder, and Neck, after 1510

17Study of Flowers, c.1481-1483

79Muscles of the Arms, Shoulder, and Neck, after 1510

18Perspectival Study for Adoration of the Magi, c.1481

80Cataclysmic Study, c.1511-1512

19Adoration of the Magi, 1480

81The Babe in the Womb, c.1511

20Saint Jerome Praying in the Wilderness, 1482

82The Foetus in the Uterus, c.1511-1513

21Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani, The Lady with the Ermine, 1483-1490

83The Heart, c.1512-1513

22Portrait of a Musician, c. 1485

84Self-portrait, c.1512

23Studies of Churches with Central Nave Plans, 1485-1490

85A Masquerader as an Exotic Pikeman, c.1517-1518

24A Rider on a Rearing Horse Trampling a Fallen Foe (Study for the Sforza Monument), 1485-1490

86A Study for the Costume of a Masquerader, c.1517-1518

25Grotesque Profile of a Man, c.1485-1490

87Young Woman Pointing in a Landscape, after 1513

26Interior of the Skull, 1489

88Saint John the Baptist – Bacchus, 1510-1515

27The Skull Sectioned, 1489

89St John the Baptist, 1513-1515

28Various Studies, before 1490

90Studies and Positions of Cats, supposed dates: 1515-1520

29A Study of a Woman’s Hands, c.1490

91Studies for the Nativity, 1480-1485

30Study of a Head of a Woman, c.1490

92Mould of the Head and Neck of the Horse for the Sforza Monument, Undated

31The Vitruvian Man, 1490

93Study for the Fight with the Dragon, Undated

32Portrait of a Lady from the Court of Milan, wrongly called the Beautiful Ferronniere, 1490-1495

94Study for the Fight with the Dragon, Undated

33The Virgin of the Rocks (The Virgin with the Infant Saint John adoring the Infant Christ accompanied by an Angel), about 1491-1508

95Heads in Profile, c.1478

34Half a Male and Half a Female Body, c.1492-1493

96Five Grotesque Heads, Undated

35Coupling Study, 1492-1494

97Head of a Woman

36A Rocky Ravine, c.1475

98A Portrait of a Young Woman in Right Profile, c. 1485-1490

37Bust of an Apostle with Right Hand Raised, c.1495

99The Head of a Youth in Right Profile, c.1510

38The Head of St Phillip, c.1495

100Profiles of a Young and an Old Man

39Study for The Last Supper (Christ), c.1495

101Study of a Hand, c.1483

40The Head of Judas, c.1495 or later

102Study of a Nude, Undated

41The Last Supper, 1494-1498

103Studies of Anatomy

42Saint Anne, the Virgin with the Child and Child John the Baptist, 1499-1500

104The Head of St James and Architectural Sketches, c.1495

43Studies for the Christ Child, 1501-1510

105Three Dancing Nymphs, Undated

44Head of a Dishevelled Young Girl, or La Scapagliata, 1500

106Hercules with the Lion Nemean, c.1505-1508

45Portrait of Isabella d’Este, 1500

107Drapery for a Seated Figure, Undated

46Map of Tuscany and Emilie-Romagne, 1502-1503

108Drapery for a Seated Figure from the Front, Undated

47Map of Western Tuscany, 1502-1505

109Study of Weapons, Undated

48A Scheme for a Canal to Bypass the Arno, c.1504

110Pharmacopoeia on the Flight of Birds, 1505-1506

49Map of the Val de Chiana, 1504

111The Distance from the Sun to Earth and the Size of the Moon, 1506-1508

50A Cannon Factory, c.1503-1504

112Study of Geometric Transformations, Undated

51Studies for the Heads of Two Soldiers in the “Battle of Anghiari”, 1503-1504

113A Sheet of Pictograms, Drawn over an Architectural Plan, c.1490

52Study for the Head of a Soldier in the “Battle of Anghiari”, 1503-1504

114Vertical Flying Machine, 1487-1490

53Portrait of Mona Lisa del Giocondo (The Mona Lisa), 1503-1506

115Different Types of Chains, 1493-1497

54The Head of Leda, c.1505-1506

116Chariot Armed with Scythe, c.1485

55Kneeling Leda and the Swan, c.1505

117Mechanism for Alternative to Continuous Movement, c.1485

56Kneeling Leda and the Swan, c.1505

118Giant Mechanical Digger, c.1503

57Leda and the Swan, After Leonardo da Vinci, 1505

119Machine Gun, c.1482

58Various Studies, before 1508

120Rapid Fire Trigger, Undated

59Botanical Studies with Star-of-Bethlehem, Grasses Crowfoot, Wood Anemone, and Another Genus, c.1505-1508

121Mortars Firing Cannonballs, Undated

60A Storm in an Alpine Valley, c.1508-1510

122The Etruscan Mausoleum

61Comparative Studies of Human and Horse Legs, c.1506-1508

123Automobile, Undated

62Study of Horses’ Hind Legs, c.1508

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