Leonardo: Discoveries from Verrocchio's Studio: Early Paintings and New Attributions

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Laurence Kanter Rita Piccione Albertson

Leonardo

Discoveries from Verrocchio's Studio: Early Paintings and New Attributions

Laurence Kanter, Rita Piccione Albertson, Bruno Mottin

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Yale University Press
11 September 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 reexamination 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 artist’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.

Distributed for the Yale University Art Gallery

Exhibition Schedule:

Yale University Art Gallery

(06/29/18–10/07/18)

By: Laurence Kanter
Contributions by: Rita Piccione Albertson, Bruno Mottin
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 273mm, Width: 229mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 1.043kg
ISBN: 9780300233018
ISBN 10: 0300233019
Pages: 150
Publication Date: 11 September 2018
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Laurence Kanter is chief curator and the Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of European Art at the Yale University Art Gallery. Bruno Mottin is senior curator in charge of the Technical Studies of Paintings at the Centre de Recherche et de Restauration des Mus es de France (C2RMF), in Paris. Rita Piccione Albertson is chief conservator at the Worcester Art Museum, in Massachusetts.

Reviews for Leonardo: Discoveries from Verrocchio's Studio: Early Paintings and New Attributions

A terrific, wonderfully readable catalogue. --Tyler Green, Modern Art Notes podcast For all art lovers, this book reveals inner workings of del Verrocchio's studio and Leonardo's significant contributions to it . . . [and] facets of Leonardo's life and art rarely if ever considered. --Anne Kugielsky, Antiques and the Arts Weekly