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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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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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Documentary evidence: The Madonna of the Yarnwinder
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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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Virgin of the Rocks:
Louvre, painted 1483-90 National Gallery, London, painted 1508
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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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The influence of the image:copies made by other artists.
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A Spanish copy:
Fernando Yanez
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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
England
Scotland
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
Cecilia Gallerani, The Lady with the Ermine, c.1490 (Czartoryski Museum, Kracow)
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