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  APPENDIX: THE WORKS OF ART

  This section gives essential information about works of art discussed in this book. All inventory and catalogue numbers are those used by the collections that hold the work in question.

  1. WORKS BY LEONARDO DA VINCI

  PAINTINGS

  Annunciation (early to mid-1470s)

  Oil and tempera on poplar wood

  Uffizi Gallery, Florence

  Ginevra de’ Benci (mid-1470s to c. 1480)

  Oil and tempera on poplar wood

  National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

  St. Jerome (early 1480s)

  Oil and tempera on walnut wood

  Vatican Museums, Rome

  The Adoration of the Magi (commissioned 1480, left unfinished c. 1482)

  Oil and tempera on wood

  Uffizi Gallery, Florence

  Virgin of the Rocks (Paris version) (early to mid-1480s)

  Oil on wood, transferred to canvas

  Louvre Museum, Paris

  Portrait of a Musician (mid-1480s)

  Tempera and oil on wood

  Pinacoteca Ambrosiana, Milan

  Cecilia Gallerani (Lady with an Ermine) (c. 1490)

  Oil on walnut

  Czartoryski Collection, National Museum, Cracow

  Virgin of the Rocks (London version) (probably begun 1490s–finished 1508)

  Oil on wood

  National Gallery, London

  The Last Su
pper (c. 1495–7)

  Tempera on plaster

  Refectory, Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan

  Mona Lisa (1503–6 and later)

  Oil on poplar wood

  Louvre Museum, Paris

  Virgin and Child with St. Anne (begun 1500s–worked on until c. 1513)

  Oil on poplar wood

  Louvre Museum, Paris

  St. John the Baptist (c. 1513–16)

  Oil on walnut

  Louvre Museum, Paris

  DRAWINGS ON PAPER

  Landscape (5 August 1473)

  Pen and ink

  Cabinet of Prints and Drawings, Uffizi Gallery, Florence

  Inventory number 436 E

  Old Warrior (early 1470s)

  Silverpoint

  Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London

  Inventory number 1895-9-15-474

  A Child Playing with Cat (late 1470s–c. 1480)

  Pen and ink

  Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London

  Inventory number 1857-1-10-1, recto and verso

  Baroncelli Hanged (December 1479)

  Pen and ink

  Musée Bonnat, Bayonne

  Inventory number 659

  Designs for a “tank” and scythed chariot (1480s)

  Pen and ink

  Department of Prints and Drawings, British Museum, London

  Designs for artillery weapons (recto); a tower exploding and a hill town being blown up (verso) (early to mid-1480s)

  Pen and dark brown ink over leadpoint (recto); pen and ink on blue paper (verso)

  Royal Library, Windsor Castle

  RL 12652

  Study for the Sforza Monument (late 1480s)

  Metalpoint on blue paper

  Royal Library, Windsor Castle

  RL 12357 recto

  Study for the Sforza Monument (late 1480s)

  Metalpoint on blue paper

  Royal Library, Windsor Castle

  RL 12358 recto

  The Vitruvian Man (c. 1490)

  Pen and ink over metalpoint

  Accademia Gallery, Venice

  Inventory 228