In April 1498, Leonardo began to paint the Sala delle Asse in the Castello Sforzesco. It is thought that the Master has personally completed the work that has made much more hands. Leonardo in this work simulates a compact trellis in front of the background of the sky and tree trunks free of kinks, whose branches and rich foliage are woven by joining a network of ropes made at the summit is in the ducal coat of arms a garland.
The work will be forgotten for several centuries.Only in the late nineteenth century, the architect Luca Beltrami, during the restoration of the castle, unfortunately finding it discovers in poor condition. Another restoration (in the twentieth century) will eventually take away what little remained of the original whole work.Today, visitors can appreciate the complicated composition and imagine the original elegance, admiring the lunettes over the supper of Grace.
Around 1409, the year that corresponds to the fall of Ludovico il Moro, Leonardo wanders between Mantua, Venice, in some areas of Romagna (experience of Valentino), and finally to Florence where it remains for five years (1501 - 1506). In Mantua, manufactures paperboard which is currently at the Louvre in Paris where he is portrayed Isabella d'Este.
The cardboard served for the construction of St. Anne (1500, for a painting commissioned by the announcement), presents a compact architecture that recalls a mysterious landscape, dominated by its beautiful here too blurred to soften the contours and gives smoothness and softness to 'enclosure. It is currently kept at the National Gallery in London, while the oil is operating at the Louvre in Paris. Here the composition is much more complex than in the box, presenting a structure - on the figures - a pyramid scheme, where standing out against a background dominated by irregular and rocky mountains, in a pale coloring that contributes even more to bring out the group of figures placed in the foreground: a perfect pitch of the landscape with poetic tenderness expressed by the soft smiles of the figures.
The two portraits made during Milan - the Musician in the Ambrosiana and the so-called Louvre Belle Ferronniere - unlike other works by Leonardo, but nolandscape backgrounds harmonized colors slightly, however, unable effectively toremove the figures from their mountings . It is not the same thing in the famousMona Lisa, where an enchanting blend harmoniously with the figure in the foreground. In this work a formal portrait Leonardo gives the idealizedtransfiguration which is evident especially in the soft flesh and focusesnell'intramontabile and mysterious smile. The poem breathes a complete vision of this fantastic environment, represented in the soft light of a beautiful sunset.Everything becomes a dream .... and the general tone tending to greenishhighlights very effectively the gradient of light and shade, rather than the color scheme.
In the hall of the Five Hundred in the Palazzo Vecchio (Florence), the great Leonardo is measured by the great Michelangelo. His Battle of Anghiari, a work created with encaustic technique and probably lost for incorrect use of technical devices with aggravating circumstances - in the fifties of the century - a badrestoration, would be one of the most important works of the Master.
Leonardo gives the characters their grace, beauty and charm, its Hellenic art. Healso infuses the soul with natural things, and gives vitality to the compositionswith a new color vision in the atmospheric degradation of its rich fine nuanced.Leonardo will exercise over the centuries a vast and permanent influence.
The stays have been very fruitful Lombardy for the great Tuscan artist, however,that nothing can pass in this region because it is surrounded by followers who, despite their allegiance to it, will not be able to pursue his art. None of themcomes close to his genius, however, one among them, Giovanni Ambrogio dePredis (1467 - 1517), became his collaborator in the Virgin of the Rocks.
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