Leonardo da vinci
/Kenneth Clark
- London: Cambridge University Press,, 1939
- 185 p.
Contents
List of plates 9 Preface 13 Introductory note 14
Chapter one: 1452-1482 17 Aim of the book; leonardo’s boyhood; apprenticeship to verrocchio; ver- Rocchio’s painting and sculpture; leonardo’s part in verrocchio’s baptism; The uffizi annunciation; the liechtenstein portrait; the munich madonna; The benois madonna; the louvre annunciation
Chapter two: 1481-1490 37 The uffizi adoration; leonardo’s departure to milan; his engines of war; The list of his works; the vatican st jerome; the paris virgin of the rocks; The portraits; leonardo’s pupils; leonardo and salai
Chapter three: the notebooks 60 Their extent and contents; general character of leonardo’s thought; the con- Tents of the early notebooks, architecture, pageants, allegories, allegorical Drawings, caricatures
Chapter four: the trattato della pittura 72 Leonardo’s writings on art; the trattato della pittura; his aesthetic theory; His notes on the science of painting and chiaroscuro, anatomy, dramatic pro- Priety; his character as an artist as revealed in the trattato
Chapter five: 1485-1496 86 The sforza monument; the last supper
Chapter six: 1497-1503 98 The divina proportione; the sala delle asse; leonardo leaves milan and Visits mantua and venice; his return to florence; the cartoon of the virgin And child and st anne; the burlington house cartoon; he takes service With cesare borgia; portraits painted in florence; the mona lisa; leon- Ardo’s landscapes and studies of plants; the leda
Chapter seven: 1503-1508 118 Leonardo’s productivity in florence; the christ among the doctors; the Neptune; studies of the flight of birds, anatomy, and canalization; the battle Of anghiari; leonardo recalled to milan; the london virgin of the rocks; Lost madonnas; work with rustici in florence; the wax bust of flora