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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519)

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The Madonna of the Yarnwinder

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The Madonna(s) of the Yarnwinder (1501-1507):New York Edinburgh

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The Life & Career of Leonardo

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Leonardo: born in Vinci, a hill-town near Florence

to Caterina, a farmer’s daughter & Piero, a lawyer who worked in Florence.

Leonardo was brought up in Vinci by his grandfather Antonio.

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The Life & Career of Leonardo

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Rome

Milan

Vinci & Florence

Amboise

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The Life & Career of Leonardo

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April 1452 Vinci Born

1464 Florence aged 12

Apprenticeship; then his own workshop. Adoration of the Magi

1482 Milan aged 30

The Last Supper; Vitruvian Man; Virgin of the Rocks (Paris), Lady with an Ermine, first anatomical drawings

1499 Florence aged 47

Mona Lisa; Madonna of the Yarnwinder, Virgin of the Rocks (London)

1506 Milan aged 54

Studies of anatomy (dissections) & of machines

1513 Rome aged 61

1516 - May 1519 Amboise, France Died, aged 67

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The Madonna(s) of the Yarnwinder (1501-1507):New York Edinburgh

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Documentary evidence: The Madonna of the Yarnwinder

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i ... once he had finished a little picture that he is doing for one Robertet, a favourite of the King of France, he will immediately do the portrait and send it to Your Excellency.

The little picture he is doing is of a Madonna seated as if she were about to spin yarn. The Child has placed his foot on the basket of yarns and has grasped the yarnwinder and gazes attentively at the four spokes that are in the form of a cross.

Letter from Fra Pietro da Novellara toIsabella d’Este, Marchioness of Mantua, April 1501

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The Madonna(s) of the Yarnwinder (1501-1507):New York Edinburgh

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Virgin of the Rocks:

Louvre, painted 1483-90 National Gallery, London, painted 1508

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The Madonna(s) of the Yarnwinder (1501-1507):New York Edinburgh

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Influence of the image on other artists:Le

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Raphael, The Virgin and Child, c.1506-8

Michelangelo, Madonna and Child with St John, c.1503-5

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Florence around 1500 - 1508

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Raphael’s house

Piero’s (father) house

Michelangelo’s house

Leonardo’s workshop

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Florence around 1500 - 1508

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Raphael’s house

Piero’s (father) house

Piero’s office

Michelangelo’s house

Leonardo’s workshop

Francesco del Giocondo’s house

Francesco del Giocondo’s silk workshop

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Mona Lisa (1503 – 1506, perhaps continuing after 1506)

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The influence of the image:copies made by other artists.

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A Spanish copy:

Fernando Yanez

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The influence of the image:copies made by other artists.

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A Spanish copy

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Scientific analysis: Conservation & cleaning

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Scientific analysis: X-rays, Infra-Red

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Scientific analysis: X-rays, Infra-Red

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The Madonna(s) of the Yarnwinder (1501-1507):New York Edinburgh

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The Life of a Painting:Two versions of the Madonna of the Yarnwinder:

both painted in Florence 1501 -1506.

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1501-1506: Florence1507: Milan

Leonardo keeps one versionRobertet (French patron) keeps the other

1519: Leonardo dies in France

1800: A Madonna of the Yarnwinder bought in France

England

New York

20th century – several owners in New York.

1756: A Madonna of the Yarnwinder bought in France

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2007: on loan to National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.

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Art History: an historical detective story

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1. Looking at the work of art

2. The life & career of the artist

3. Documentary evidence

4. The art historical context

5. Copies

6. Scientific analysis

7. The life of the painting

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452 – 1519)

Salvator Mundi, c. 1500 (Abu Dhabi / Saudi Arabia ??)

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Ginerva de' Benci, c.1476-8 (National Gallery, Washington)

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Portrait of a Musician, c.1485 (Ambrosiana Museum, Milan)

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Cecilia Gallerani, The Lady with the Ermine, c.1490 (Czartoryski Museum, Kracow)

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Portrait of a Lady (La Belle Ferroniere), c.1496-7 (Louvre, Paris)

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