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Illustration Credits
Interior images
1.
Lodovico il Moro in Prayer
detail of a painting by Master of the Pala Sforzesca 1490–1520/The Art Archive/Musée d’Orsay Paris/Collection Dagli Orti.
2.
Study for an Equestrian Monument
, c.1485–90 (metalpoint on blue prepared paper), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / The Royal Collection © 2011 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II /The Bridgeman Art Library.
3.
Charles VIII, King of France
(1483–98), unsigned painting, contemporary. Photograph: akg-images.
4.
The Baptism of Christ by John the Baptist
, c.1475 (oil on panel), Verrocchio, Andrea (1435–88) and Vinci, Leonardo da(1452–1519) / Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library.
5.
Landscape in the Arno Valley
, Leonardo da Vinci, 1452–1519. Ink drawing, 19.4 × 28.6cm. Photograph: akg-images / Rabatti –Domingie.
6.
The Adoration of the Magi
, 1481–82 (oil on panel), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library.
7. NO CREDIT
8.
The Last Supper
(mosaic), Byzantine School, (6th century) / Sant’ Apollinare Nuovo, Ravenna, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library.
9.
The Last Supper
, 1480 (fresco), Ghirlandaio, Domenico (Domenico Bigordi) (1449–94) / Ognissanti, Florence, Italy / Alinari / The Bridgeman Art Library.
10.
A study of seated figures in conversation
, Leonardo da Vinci, Supplied by Royal Collection Trust / © HM Queen Elizabeth II 2012.
11. Study of figures for
The Adoration of the Magi
(pen and ink on paper), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / Louvre, Paris, France / Giraudon / The Bridgeman Art Library.
12. Detail,
Two Heads in Profile
, c. 1500 (red chalk on paper), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy / Alinari / The Bridgeman Art Library.
13. Perspective study for the background of
The Adoration of the Magi
(pen and ink on paper), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy / Alinari / The Bridgeman Art Library.
14. Studies for
The Last Supper
and architectural geometric sketches, c. 1494 (pen & ink on paper), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / The Royal Collection © 2011 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II / The Bridgeman Art Library.
15. The head of St. James in
The Last Supper
, and architectural sketches, Leonardo da Vinci, Supplied by Royal Collection Trust / © HM Queen Elizabeth II 2012.
16. Detail,
The Last Supper
, 1495–97 (fresco) (post restoration), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library.
17.
A Man Tricked by Gypsies
, Leonardo da Vinci, Supplied by Royal Collection Trust / © HM Queen Elizabeth II 2012.
18. The prophet Joel, from the Sistine ceiling (pre restoration), Buonarroti, Michelangelo (1475–1564) / Vatican Museums and Galleries, Vatican City, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library.
19. The head of St. Bartholomew in
The Last Supper
, Leonardo da Vinci, Supplied by Royal Collection Trust / © HM Queen Elizabeth II 2012.
20. Caradosso medal, reversed.
21. Self portrait of Leonardo da Vinci from the codex on the flight of birds.
22.
Portrait of a Bearded Man
, possibly a self-portrait, c. 1513 (red chalk on paper), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / Biblioteca Reale, Turin, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library.
23.
Flying Machines
, fol. 83v from Paris Manuscript B, 1488–90 (pen and ink on paper) (see also 162317), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / Bibliotheque de I’Institut de France, Paris, France / Alinari / The Bridgeman Art Library.
23a. © Matthew Landrus
.
24. Detail,
The Last Supper
, 1495–97 (fresco) (post restoration), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library.
25.
Portrait of Fra Luca Pacioli
, mathematician, Barbari, Jacopo de’ (1440–50-1516)/The Art Archive / Museo di Capodimonte, Naples / Collection Dagli Orti.
26.
Dodecahedron
, from
De divina proportione
by Luca Pacioli, published 1509, Venice (engraving) (b/w photograph), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France / Giraudon / The Bridgeman Art Library.
27, 28.
St. Jerome
, c. 1480–82 (oil and tempera on walnut), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519)/ Vatican Museums and Galleries, Vatican City, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library.
29.
The Last Supper
, 1495–97 (fresco) (post restoration), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library.
30.
The Last Supper
, 1495–97 (fresco) (post restoration), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library.
31.
Communion of the Apostles
, 1451–53 (tempera on panel), Angelico, Fra (Guido di Pietro) (c. 1387–1455) / Museo di San Marco dell’Angelico, Florence, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library.
32.
St. John the Baptist
, 1513–16 (oil on canvas), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / Louvre, Paris, France / The Bridgeman Art Library.
33. The head of St. Philip in
The Last Supper
, Leonardo da Vinci, Supplied by Royal Collection Trust / © HM Queen Elizabeth II 2012.
34.
The Last Supper
, 1495–97 (fresco) (post restoration), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library.
35.
The Last Supper
, 1495–97 (fresco) (post restoration), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library.
36.
Studies of hands
, Leonardo da Vinci, supplied by Royal Collection Trust / © HM Queen Elizabeth II 2012.
37.
The Last Supper
, 1495–97 (fresco) (post restoration), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library.
38. Jorio, Andrea de.
La Mimica degli antichi investigata nelgestire napoletano
. Plates 19 and 20 (classmark: Lib.5.83.21) reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.
39. The hands of St. John in
The Last Supper
, Leonardo da Vinci, supplied by Royal Collection Trust / © HM Queen Elizabeth II 2012.
40.
The Last Supper
, 1495–97 (fresco) (post restoration), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library.
41.
The Last Supper
, 1495–97 (fresco) (post restoration), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library.
41a.
A Portrait of Leonardo in Profile
, c.1515 (red chalk), Melzi or Melzo, Francesco (1493–1570) (attr. to) / The Royal Collection © 2011 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II / The Bridgeman Art Library
42. The head of Judas in
The Last Supper
, c.1495 (red chalk on pale red prepared paper), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / The Royal Collection © 2011 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II / The Bridgeman Art Library.
43. NO CREDIT.
44. Louis XII, King of France, c. 1490 (oil on panel), Perréal, Jean (c.1455–1530) (workshop of) / The Royal Collection © 2011 Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II / The Bridgeman Art Library.
45. Drawing for stage design (detail of one of two semicircular elements placed in cavity of stage), from
Atlantic Codex (Codex Atlanticus)
by Leonardo da Vinci, folio 669 recto, Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan, Italy / De Agostini Picture Library Metis e Mida Informatica / Veneranda Biblioteca Ambrosiana / The Bridgeman Art Library.
Color insert
1. Giampietrino’s (Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli) copy of
The Last Supper
after Leonardo da Vinci © Royal Academy of Arts, London; Photographer: Prudence Cuming Associates Limited.
2.
Madonna of the Rocks
, c. 1478 (oil on panel transferred to canvas), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / Louvre, Paris, France / The Bridgeman Art Library.
3. Map of Milan, from Civitates orbis terrarum by Georg Braun (1541–1622) and Frans Hogenburg (1535–90), c. 1572 (colored engraving), Hoefnagel, Joris (1542–1600) (after) / Private Collection / The Stapleton Collection / The Bridgeman Art Library.
4.
The Last Supper
, 1495–97 (fresco) (post restoration), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / Santa Maria della Grazie, Milan, Italy / The Bridgeman Art Library.
5.
Crucifixion
, 1495 (fresco), Montorfano, Giovanni Donato (1440–1510) / Cenacolo di Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan / Mauro Ranzani/Alinari Reproduced with the permission of Ministero per i Beni e le Attivita Culturali / The Bridgeman Art Library.
6.
The Lady with the Ermine
(Cecilia Gallerani), 1496 (oil on walnut panel), Vinci, Leonardo da (1452–1519) / © Czartoryski Museum, Cracow, Poland / The Bridgeman Art Library.
