Preface Introduction 1. The Independent Artist The Seeds of the Renaissance Leonardo’s Early Years 2. Young Leonardo The Quattrocento Workshop The Rise of Secular Portraiture Leonardo’s First Portrait Leonardo and the Medici The Adoration of the Magi Leonardo’s First Florentine Period 3. Leonardo in Milan The Milanese Portraits The Last Supper Fresco The Sojourn in Mantua Leonardo in Venice 4. The Portrait of Lisa del Giocondo The Heidelberg Document The Giocondo Family An Examination of the Louvre Mona Lisa Attempts to Discredit Vasari The Solution to the Mona Lisa Mystery CONTENTS 5. The Battle of Anghiari The Second Virgin of the Rocks The French King Summons Leonardo to Milan A Diplomatic Fracas The Canvas Version of the Last Supper 6. The High Mark of Leonardo’s Second Milanese Studio The Codex Leicester Leonardo’s Anatomical Studies The Saint Anne in Leonardo’s Oeuvre Leda and the Swan The Salvator Mundi 7. Leonardo in Rome The End of Leonardo’s Second Milanese Studio The 2006 Publication of the Louvre Tests The Critical Role of the Mona Lisa Landscape Leonardo’s Journeys in the Grigna The Age of the Sitter The Louvre Mona Lisa and the Saint Anne The Prado Mona Lisa Conclusion: the Gioconda and the Mona Lisa 8. The End and the Beginning Leonardo Departs for France The Role…