Leonardo da Vinci: Painter at the Court of Milan

Leonardo da Vinci's reputation as an inventor and scientist, and the complexity of his creativity and personality, have sometimes almost overshadowed the importance of his aims and techniques as a painter. This catalogue focuses on a crucial period in the 1480s and 1490s when, as a salaried court artist to Duke Ludovico Sforza in the city-state of Milan, freed from the pressures of making a living in the commercially minded Florentine republic, Leonardo produced some of the most celebrated—and influential—work of his career. The Last Supper, his two versions of The Virgin of the Rocks, and the beautiful portrait of Ludovico's mistress, Cecilia Gallerani (The Lady with an Ermine), were paintings that set a new standard for his Milanese contemporaries. Leonardo's style was magnified, through collaboration and imitation, to become the visual language of the regime, and by the time he returned to Florence in 1500, his status had been utterly transformed. 

• Leonardo da Vinci's technical practice (La pratique technique de Léonard de Vinci ): Paintings, drawings and influence (peintures, dessins et influence) (HR.HORS COLLEC.) (French Edition)
• Saint Anne: Leonardo da Vinci's Ultimate Masterpiece
• Leonardo: 1452-1519
• Living with Leonardo: Fifty Years of Sanity and Insanity in the Art World and Beyond
• Leonardo da Vinci: The 100 Milestones
• Leonardo da Vinci. The Complete Paintings
• The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art
• Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer
• Leonardo da Vinci: A Life in Drawing
• Vermeer in Detail