Da Vinci's Ghost (36 page)

mirror script
64
,
118
,
144
,
207

musicality
76
,
103
,
120

notebooks
4
–6,
83
,
107
,
108
–9,
112
,
117
–20,
123
,
140
,
141
,
150
,
156
,
169
,
202
,
209
,
212
–13,
219

painter’s guild member
76

partnership in Verrocchio studio
76
,
77
,
97

patronage
96
,
97
,
225

personality
4
,
65

a popular icon
xiii

problem with deadlines
92
–93

reading
170
–74

and Renaissance man
169

and Saltarelli affair
77
–80,
96

saws open a human head
183
–85,
185
,
187

the seat of the human soul Pl.
8

self-portraiture
214
–17

studies human body to understand the world as a whole
xii

studies relationship between anatomy and architecture
10

survey of human proportions
190
–93,
191
,
207
–9

vegetarianism
161

visits Pavia
2
–3,
6
–7,
121
,
195
–97,
199
,
224

a visual thinker
174
–75

and Vitruvius’s
Ten Books
62
,
142
–43

Annunciation
97

The Last Supper
123
,
214
,
224

Mona Lisa
122
,
224

On the Human Body
178
–80,
208
,
213

Sforza horse
160
,
224

Study for the Head of St. James
112
,
113

Virgin of the Rocks
104
,
120

Vitruvian Man
ix
–xv,
199
–200,
203
,
205
,
210
,
212
–13,
214
,
216
–17,
218
–25,
222

Lester, Toby:
The Fourth Part of the World
x

Livy
17
,
30

Lombard Plain
1
,
172
,
195

Louis XII, King of France
201

Lucretius
62

M

Machiavelli, Niccolò
100
–101

The Prince
151

macrocosm
48
–49

Manilius, Marcus
31
,
34
,
62

manuscripts, copying of
46
–47

mapping, coordinate-based
87

Marmocchi, Carlo
94
–95

The Quadrant
95

Mars (god of war)
30

Mars (planet)
35

Martini, Francesco di Giorgio
134
,
156
,
158
,
209
,
213

architectural consultant
3
,
194
,
196

in the duke of Urbino’s service
151
–52

evaluation of proposals for
tiburio
project
193
,
194

the human body and design
8
,
9
,
10

reputation
3
,
123
,
193

and
Ten Books
152
,
194
–95,
196
–97,
198

visits Pavia
2
–3,
6
–7,
121
,
172
,
195
–97,
199
,
200
,
224

Vitruvian Man
197
–99,
198
,
210
,
216

Ancient Monuments
194

Treatise on Architecture, Engineering, and the Art of War
7
–8,
9
,
10
,
121
,
153
–55,
154
,
155
,
193
–94,
196
–97,
198
,
199
,
202
,
211
,
211
,
212

Masini, Tommaso
161

master builders
128
,
129
,
136
,
139
–40,
149

Maternus, Julius Firmicus
49

mathematics
ix
,
6
,
64
,
106

Maximus, Abbot
127

Medici, Lorenzo de’
80
–81,
85
,
97
,
99
,
100
,
101
,
103
,
150

Medici family
81

medicine
26
,
34
,
40
,
42
,
55
,
141
–42,
173
,
224

Melzi, Francesco
219
,
224

metrological reliefs
37
,
38
,
190
,
224

microcosm

Christ as
56
,
57
,
58

as envisaged by Hildegard of Bingen
44
,
55
,
61
, Pl.
5

geographical anatomy of Pl.
4

and the great cathedrals of Europe
128

human body as the world in miniature
xii
,
33
–34,
49
,
55
–56,
58
–60,
164
,
174

Islamic ideas of
xiv

man as
153
, Pl.
7

microcosm-macrocosm analogy
50
, Psl.
1
,
2
,
3

Middle Ages
46
,
55
,
95
,
174

Mignot, Jean
136
,
138
–39

Milan

Brera monastery
5

Castello
5

cathedral
2
,
7

Church of Santo Stefano
102

churches
5

Corte Vecchio
5

court
xiv
,
5
,
100
,
101
,
103
,
104
,
106
,
140
,
201

described
97
–98

French forces occupy (1499)
201
,
224

Leonardo decides to move to
97
,
101

Leonardo leaves (1499), returning in 1506
201
–2

Leonardo temporarily charms the Moor
103

Leonardo’s association with the de Predis brothers
104
,
120

plague outbreak
123

relationship with Florence
98
,
99
,
130

a renowned center of medical learning and practice
164

Santa Maria Maggiore church
99

Sforza family’s control of
98
,
172

state visit to Florence (1471)
99
–101

Venice threatens war with
120
,
123

Milan, archbishop of
219

Milan, duke of
1
–2

Milan cathedral
98
–99,
125
,
132
,
156

tiburio
project
2
,
7
,
136
,
138
–42,
141
,
159
,
193
,
194
,
195
,
196
,
200

military engineering
120
–23,
122
,
124
,
125
,
143
,
152

mini-Renaissance (twelfth century)
51
,
55

minor mundus
(a world in miniature)
34

Mirandola, Giovanni Pico della:
Oration on the Dignity of Man
86

Montefeltro, Federico da, duke of Urbino
121
,
151
–52,
153
,
193

months, twelve Pl.
2

moon, the
54

Mundinus (Raimondo de’Luzzi)
173

Anatomy
162
–67,
179
,
186

Muscle Man
58
,
59
,
175

music
26
,
43
,
76
,
101
,
103
,
106
,
120
,
179
,
182

mystics
xii
,
27
,
58
,
223

N

natural philosophy/philosophers
53
,
93
–96,
104
,
158
,
168
,
173
,
188
,
215

nature

as architect of the world
161

human body embodying laws of nature
34

power of
28

Neoplatonism
85
,
95
,
116
,
142

Nero, Emperor
24

Nerve Man
58
,
59
,
175

Nicholas V, Pope
148
–49,
150

O

Officers of the Night and Monasteries
77

order

heavenly
53
,
54

natural
36
,
38
,
49
,
53

Roman obsession with
27

Ovid
38
,
173

Oxford metrological relief
38

P

Pacioli, Luca

On Divine Perspective
214

On Divine Proportion
201
,
212

Pagave, Venanzio de’
219
,
223

Parthians
24

Paul, St.
45
–46

Pavia

Il Saracino inn
1
,
8
,
195
,
216

Martini and Leonardo’s visit
2
–3,
6
–7,
121
,
172
,
195
,
224

a renowned center of medical learning and practice
164

as a valuable source of experts and books
6

Visconti Castle
200

Visconti library
11
,
171
,
172
–73,
200

Pavia cathedral
2
,
195
,
196

Pèlerin, Jean
6

Perissa Torrini, Dr. Annalisa
xv
,
218
,
222

Persian monument, construction of a
36

perspective
74
,
83
,
109
,
179
,
214

linear
82
,
95
,
109
,
153

perspectograph
83
,
84

Petrarch
170
,
172
,
173

Philo of Alexandria
33
,
56

philosophers
xii
,
26
,
27
,
33
,
62
,
91
,
102
,
144
,
145
,
174
,
180
,
181
,
185
,
186
,
188

physics
106
,
120
,
142
,
160
,
168
,
196

Piero da Vinci
63
,
66
,
70
,
71

planets
28
,
54

and Christ
56
,
57

Plato
33
,
52
,
173
,
180

Renaissance cult of
78

Timaeus
27
,
53

Pliny the Elder
22
,
105
,
152

Natural History
173

pneuma
(“breath”; all-pervasive divine spirit)
33

Polykleitos
39

codifying the ideal body
21
,
22
,
37

Canon
(book and statue)
21
,
22
,
190

Spear Bearer
21
–22,
22
,
23
,
24
,
190

Portinari, Benedetto
6

printing
170
–71

Priscian
62

Ptolemy, Claudius
87
,
88
,
105
,
173
,
208
–9

Geography
87
,
89
,
180

Q

Quintilian
22
,
62
,
104

R

Reims cathedral
135
,
135

Reisch, Gregor:
Margarita philosophica
86

Renaissance

architectural theory
xiv

a classical Renaissance
16
–17

emerging spirit of
116

Florence as hub of
62

ideals of
ix

linear perspective
82