The young Leonardo :art and life in fifteenth-century Florence
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New York
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Cambridge University Press
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2011
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xii, 203 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references )p. 189-200( and index
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1. Childhood -- 2. Florence and Cosimo the Elder -- 3. The cultural climate of Florence -- 4. First years in Florence and the Verrocchio workshop -- 5. First works in Florence and the artistic milieu -- 6. Early pursuits in engineering: hydraulics and the movement of water -- 7. The Bust of a Warrior and Leonardo's creative method -- 8. Early participation in the Medici court -- 9. Leonardo's personality and place in Florentine society --01. Important productions and collaborations in the Verroccio shop -- 11. Leonardo's colleagues in the workshop --21. Leonardo's Madonna of the Carnation and the exploration of optics -- 31. The Benois Madonna and continued meditations on the theme of sight -- 41. The Madonna of the Cat -- 51. Leonardo, the Medici, and public executions -- 61. Leonardo and Ginevra de'Benci -- 71. Leonardo as portraitist and master of the visual pun -- 81. The young sculptor -- 91. The Madonna Litta -- 02. The Adoration of the Magi and invention of the High Renaissance style -- 12. The Adoration and Leonardo's military interests -- 22. Leonardo and allegorical conceits for the Medici court -- 32. Early ideas for the Last Supper -- 42. Leonardo and the Saint Sebastian -- 52. Saint Jerome -- 62. First thoughts for the Virgin of the Rocks and the invention of the Mary Magdelene-courtesan genre -- 72 Milan -- 82. Leonardo and the Sforza court