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Wednesday, 28 January, 2009
had been identified as Galileo Galilei, but may be the oldest self-portrait of Leonardo. To make a sensational discovery in a private collection in the region was Barbatelli Nicola, dell'OSMTJ researcher in the course of an investigation entrusted to him by the same order on the presence of the Templars in Lucania. Tutto è cominciato 5 anni fa in Basilicata, dove Barbatelli stava effettuando ricerche su una famiglia nobile di Acerenza, che lo ha portato a individuare conferme della presenza di confraternite di dottrina pitagorica, come le tele di Antonio Stabile. Queste lo hanno condotto al dipinto. «Ho capito subito che non era Galileo – dice Barbatelli – postura del soggetto, stile e tecnica rimandavano all’autoritratto leonardesco degli Uffizi. Questo, però, sembrava antecedente, il soggetto è più giovane di vent’anni. Esami in laboratorio hanno attestato che il dipinto è più antico di quello di Firenze. Ma siamo solo agli inizi, l’attribuzione non è certa e passa per vari esami». Ora allo studio di Alessandro Vezzosi, direttore del Museo Ideale Leonardo da Vinci, il dipinto è stato concesso in comodato al Comune di Vaglio. La presenza di Leonardo in Lucania sarebbe confermata da Vasari. Per l’attribuzione ufficiale occorre aspettare ancora, ma gli esperti escludono possa trattarsi di una copia .Continua
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Yet in the face of a journey as rich and varied very few are the completed paintings: some were left unfinished, others do not were never delivered to customers, others remained in the possession of the artist who continued to put his hand slowly and intermittently until morte.Leonardo, of course, was not pork but professional man of science and universal genius . Leonardo as an artist: to him we owe the invention of innovative solutions figurative very much in setting the altar, with figures breaking free from the usual architectural parts and fit within a natural environment, as a seductive portrait of psychological insight given to the court.


that develops in two designs stored at
Chatsworth and Rotterdm , dated between 1504 and 1505,
lends itself very well to the study of sinuous and complicated. The technique designed
adopted, in pen and brown ink on a
in black chalk.
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Giampietrino (pupil of Leonardo)
Leda with the children about 1515 kassel , staaliche
Museen Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister
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Studies graphs drawn on the theme of Leda kneeling were brought by Leonardo in Milan: some evidence is given by the sons of Leda and Giampietrino , free recollections of Leonardo's model
I Leonardesca - initially in a very limited circle of students (Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio , Marco d ' Oggiono , Francesco Napoletano) At the end of the fifteenth century. after the departure of Leonardo da Milano, the call of his works became magnetizing, the area between Milan and the Venetian for some personality (Solario Andrea, Giovanni Agostino da Lodi), the painters of the new, young generation (Cesare da Sesto, Giampietrino , Bernadino , Luini ): quest'ultimi innestarono la lezione Leonardesca, vivificata poi dalla rinnovata presenza del maestro in Lombardia, con i nuovi stimoli provenienti dalla cultura centro italiana pervenendo a risultati diversificati sul piano linguistico, ma accomunati dalla condivisione di un unico e altissimo modello di riferimento.

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Leonardo da Vinci's Madonna with Child (Madonna Benois )
1478-1482 oil on canvas, 48 \u200b\u200b× 31 cm St Petersburg Museum of 'Ermitage
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The painting, whose provenance is known about very uncertain, named after the family that was long in the nineteenth century and that the owner sold it in 1914 Museum russo. Stretta è la parentela che questo disegno dichiara , sia nello stesso grafico con gli studi per la Madonna del gatto, che tennero occupata la mente dell'artista negli ultimi anni del soggiorno fiorentino,venendo tra l'altro a dare conferma della datazione alta generalmente accolta per il dipinto.
Evidente la scarto che la Madonna Benois rivela rispetto alle versioni del tema.
Il dipinto presenta importanti novità anche sotto il profilo compositivo, le due figure sono saldamente unite,al centro del dipinto i nodi più significativi sono:l'incontro con le mani e quello delle teste.

Madonna and Child with St. John and an Angel (Virgin of the Rocks)
1490-about-London National Gallery
The painting was the magazine ' wooden altarpiece commissioned by the Confraternity of the Immaculate Conception for their chapel in St. Francis in Milan. He stayed there until the eighties of settecento.Dopo some passages in the English collector, came to its present site in 1880. There is a very complex archival documents relating to this altarpiece . The figures of this painting are arranged in a pyramid scheme that finds its apex in the Virgin, settle on the first floor and take a large plastic relief
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The work was completed only after 1506, the date of return of Leonardo in Lombardy, and that he would also sought the collaboration of Ambrogio de Predis . Ambrogio de Predis would then run one of the two panels with angel musicians flanking the Virgin of the Rocks, the one with the Angel in red, lute player, in which there can be no reflection of a Leonardo. The other table with the angel in green, viola player but is strongly geared to the language of Leonardo's, (some scholars linked to a student of master Francesco Napoletano).
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Madonna and Child with St. John and an Angel (Virgin of the Rocks ) Paris, Musée de Louvre .1483-1485-about
The first documented presence in the French royal collections dating back to 1625, when Cassiano del Pozzo saw him in Fontanebleau in the gallery of pitture.Ancora was not clear how il dipinto giunse in Francia, tra le ipotesi più accreditate vi è quella che sia stato sequestrato dai francesi in seguito all'invasione di Milano ( dal sovrano Luigi XII nel 1499, oppure che sia stato donato da Ludovico il Moro all'imperatore Massimiliano in occasione del matrimonio con la nipote Bianca Maria Sforza nel 1493. Sembra comunque che si trovasse in Francia già nel secondo decennio del Cinquecento La vergine delle rocce francese è un'opera fortemente legata all'esperienza fiorentina di Leonardo. Il dipinto trae ispirazione dall'episodio, tramandato dai Vangeli apocrifi, secondo cui la sacra famiglia, durante la fuga in Egitto, avrebbe cercato rifugio in una grotta dove avrebbe ricevuto la visita di San Giovannino, rimasto orfano dopo the death of Elizabeth. Central is in fact the figure of French painting in St. John which converges on the participants' attention to the sacred scene: angel pointed out that the gaze to the viewer, is shown kneeling in adoration to the Virgin, which protects him accepting it in its mantle, an allusion to the frailty of the human race in need of divine protection In addition to the emphasis put on the figure of St. John the Baptist,
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the blade is in direct continuity with the experience gained over the years by Leonardo in Florence. You read it clearly adopted in the solution composition, with the figures, located on the diagonal, as suggested by the index pointed to by an angel and received within the space and nearly sucked damp cave and fascinating, filled with a crackling penumbra of light effects.

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1490-1495 olio su tavola , 63 × 45 cm Parigi,
Musée du Louvre
Nella Belle Ferronière, l'artista porta a pieno compimento quanto precedentemente sperimentato in campo ritrattistico, riuscendo a cogliere con grande naturalezza e apparente disinvoltura l'attimo in cui la figura femminile ruota la testa verso lo spettatore e volge quasi impercettibilmente lo sguardo alla sua sinistra, come attratta a voice-over, without giving his firm set in space. The absence of hands, hidden from the railing, leads to focus on the model's face and eyes, eye-catching with hypnotic force. The great charm of the painting is given to the masterful use of light, and the way to lighten the shadow of the neck with a glare of light that seems to emanate from the gilded parts of the series. the artist reveals a great skill, derived in part from studies conducted in those same years on optics and refraction of light in manuscript C of the Institut de France, dating from around 1490.

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La dama con l'ermellino Leonardo da Vinci,1488-1490 olio su tavola , 54,8 × 40,3 cm Cracovia, Czartoryski Muzeum
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Si ritiene che la dama qui ritratta sia identificata in Cecilia Gallerani, amante di Ludovico Sforza. Alla sua identità alluderebbe in chiave simbolica l'ermellino che tiene in grembo:riecheggia infatti il cognome della donna e la bestiola usata frequentemente come emblema di Ludovico. Grande evidenza è data all'ermellino nel dipinto, la sua perfetta conformazione cranica, la morbida consistenza della, pelliccia, il verso in cui è orientato pelo.Nessuno except for the Leonardo, would have known tredurre in visual terms the physical and instinctual predator dell'animaletto, so alert and ready to hunt their prey, even in its heraldic position sinuous dell'ermeldino enhances dignity, in the epigrammatic form ' entire composition.
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Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci, 1495-1498 tempera and oil on plaster, 460 x 880 cm Milan, Church Santa Maria delle Grazie
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ducal insignia del Moro in central lunette above the Last Supper (the lunettes were rediscovered only in 1854) make it very likely that the Board of Leonardo's great mural in the refectory, although not documented, had come Luovico from the Moor. A confirmation of this appears to come from a letter June 29, 1497 the Secretary Marchesino bar where the Moro calls to ask why Leonardo finisca l'opera del refettorio.


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St. Anne, the Virgin and Child
Leonardo da Vinci, c.
1508 oil on canvas, 168 × 112 cm
Paris, Louvre Museum .
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In questo dipinto, Leonardo, finge un Cristo Bambino che, uscendo quasi dalle braccia della mamma prende un agnellino (animale immortalato) nella passione di Cristo.
la naturalezza delle figure, e la loro tenerissima dolcezza espressiva sono enfatizzate da un senso di morbido avvolgimento atmosferico: le figure immerse nell'aria luminosa circostante sembrano dissolversi in essa grazie anche alla gamma cromatica molto tenue che si accorda perfectly with the blue-gray tones of the backdrop
On the cardstock, Leonardo's studies for the Madonna and Child with a lamb (Venice Accademia Galleries).


La Gioconda, then came to join in an unspecified time, the French royal collections and exposed to Fontainebleau, where he was much admired by Cassiano del Pozzo in 1625, then passed in the Galleries du Petit Roi at Versailles, where recorded in 1695 and was made visible to a wider public only after his entrance to the Louvre in 1797, which, however, was away for a few years at the beginning of the nineteenth century to be exhibited in the apartment of Josephine Bonaparte.



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Ginevra de 'Benci-1475-76-
Washington, National Gallery London
Washington-National Gallery
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