Leonardo : discoveries from Verrocchio's studio : early paintings and new attributions

Leonardo Discoveries from Verrocchio's studio : early paintings and new attributions

Laurence B. Kanter

Book - 2018

Presents exciting, original conclusions about Leonardo da Vinci's early life as an artist and amplifies his role in Andrea del Verrocchio's studio. This groundbreaking re-examination of the beginnings of Leonardo da Vinci's (1452-1519) life as an artist suggests new candidates for his earliest surviving work and revises our understanding of his role in the studio of his teacher, Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488). Anchoring this analysis are important yet often overlooked considerations about Verrocchio's studio-specifically, the collaborative nature of most works that emerged from it and the probability that Leonardo must initially have learned to paint in tempera, as his teacher did. The book searches for the young arti...st's hand among the tempera works from Verrocchio's studio and proposes new criteria for judging Verrocchio's own painting style. Several paintings are identified here as likely the work of Leonardo and others long considered works by Verrocchio or his assistant Lorenzo di Credi (1457/59-1536) may now be seen as collaborations with Leonardo sometime before his departure from Florence in 1482/83. In addition to Laurence Kanter's detailed arguments, the book features three essays presenting recent scientific analysis and imaging that support the new attributions of paintings, or parts of paintings, to Leonardo.00Exhibition: Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA (Summer-Fall 2018).

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Subjects
Leonardo, > da Vinci, > 1452-1519 > Criticism and interpretation.
Painting > Expertising.
Painting > Radiography.
Published
New Haven : Yale University Art Gallery 2018.
Language
English
Main Author
Laurence B. Kanter (author)
Other Authors
Bruno Mottin (contributor), Rita Piccione Albertson
Physical Description
144 pages, [6] folded leaves : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN
9780300233018
  • Leonarda da Vinci, pupil of Andrea del Verrocchio / Laurence Kanter
  • The Annunciation : a technical study / Bruno Mottin
  • A miracle of Saint Donatus of Arezzo : a technical study / Rita Piccione Albertson
  • Some conclusions on the Annunciation and A miracle of Saint Donatus of Arezzo / Bruno Mottin.
Review by Choice Review

This book functions more as a companion than as a catalogue to a Yale University Art Gallery exhibition intended to shed light on the early career of Leonardo da Vinci in the workshop of Andrea del Verrocchio. There is, for example, no checklist of objects in the exhibition, perhaps because a number of paintings discussed and reproduced in the book were represented by large-scale photographs in the exhibition, thus causing a disjunction between what is in the book and what one expects of an actual exhibition. The volume does, however, cast light on Da Vinci's early career and the fluid interactions of artists working together in a painting workshop in the late 15th century. The text relies on traditional connoisseurship for distinguishing the separate hands of the artists in Verrocchio's workshop, an approach that is here judiciously employed with open discussion of its limitations. The contributions on predella panels in the Worcester Art Museum and the Louvre by a conservator of each (respectively, Albertson and Mottin) provide nonspecialists with a useful discussion of the paintings' structures and techniques as a way of understanding artistic progress and possibilities for considering their (re)attributions. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. --John T. Paoletti, emeritus, Wesleyan University

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