The Sources of Leonardo da Vinci: Style, Literature, and Character Expression

A look into the paintings and true image of Leonardo, the "Universal Man." The unique development of art and scholarship. This book explores the origins of Leonardo's creative process by reexamining the works of this Italian Renaissance painter, celebrated as the "Universal Man," as unfinished and finished works based on sketching techniques and sketches. It also examines his style, production date, narrative themes, form and color of his depictions of the human body and landscape, and his influence on later literary works, revealing the ways in which Leonardo's diverse thoughts were expressed.

Table of Contents I. Introduction II. Leonardo the Painter - Focusing on Unfinished Works 1. Unfinished Paintings - The Case of Leonardo da Vinci 2. Fra' Bartolomeo and Leonardo da Vinci - On the "Unfinished" Altarpiece 3. Leonardo da Vinci's Self-Portrait (Owned by the Royal Library of Turin) 4. On Leonardo da Vinci's "Saint John the Baptist" - Form and Date of Creation III. The Literary Sources of Leonardo's Paintings 1. W. B. Yates and Leonardo da Vinci 2. Vasari, Pater, and Yates: On Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" 3. The Visual Sources of W. B. Yates's "Leda and the Swan" IV. Leonardo's Representation of Women - Focusing on the Virgin Mary 1. On Leonardo da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine" (Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani) 2. Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" - From the Lineage of the "Fateful Woman" 3. On Leonardo da Vinci's "Two-Pointed Virgin Mary" 4. On Leonardo da Vinci's "Pointing Woman" - Subject and Date of Creation 5. Leonardo da Vinci's "Blue": A Panoramic Study of Representations of the Virgin Mary V. Conclusion Picture Catalog Index