Williamsburg Regional Library

Leonardo da Vinci, painter at the court of Milan, Luke Syson with Larry Keith [and others]

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-316) and index

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Leonardo da Vinci

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Luke Syson with Larry Keith [and others]

painter at the court of Milan

Leonardo da Vinci's reputation as an inventor and scientist, and the complexity of his creativity and personality, have sometimes almost overshadowed the importance of his aims and techniques as a painter. This catalogue focuses on a crucial period in the 1480s and 1490s when, as a salaried court artist to Duke Ludovico Sforza in the city-state of Milan, freed from the pressures of making a living in the commercially minded Florentine republic, Leonardo produced some of the most celebrated<U+2014>and influential<U+2014>work of his career. The Last Supper, his two versions of The Virgin of the Rocks, and the beautiful portrait of Ludovico's mistress, Cecilia Gallerani (The Lady with an Ermine), were paintings that set a new standard for his Milanese contemporaries. Leonardo's style was magnified, through collaboration and imitation, to become the visual language of the regime, and by the time he returned to Florence in 1500, his status had been utterly transformed

The rewards of service : Leonardo da Vinci and the Duke of Milan / Luke Syson -- In pursuit of perfection : Leonardo's painting technique / Larry Keith -- Catalogue. The eye and the mind : seeing and believing ; The musician in Milan : a quiet revolution ; Beauty and love : Leonardo's portraits of women ; Body and soul : Saint Jerome in penitence ; Representing the divine: The Virgin of the rocks ; The Madonna Litta : Leonardo and his companions -- Character and emotion : The Last Supper ; The Miracle of talent : Leonardo and the French

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