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Disc 1: 1. Introducing Leonardo da Vinci -- 2. Who was Leonardo? facts and fictions -- 3. Leonardo's artistic origins -- 4. From apprentice to partner -- 5. Annunciation: Leonardo's first commission -- 6. A new kind of portrait: Ginevra de' Benci -- disc 2: 7. Leonardo's early Madonnas -- 8. Scandal, reprieve and the penitent St. Jerome -- 9. Inventing early modern classicism -- 10. Arrival in Milan: Madonna of the rocks -- 11. Leonardo at court: portrait of a musician -- 12. Leonardo and the ladies -- disc 3: 13. Threats to the Italian Renaissance: the 1490s -- 14. Leonardo the inventor and engineer -- 15. Vitruvian man, perfection, and architecture -- 16. Leonardo the military scientist -- 17. Leonardo and flight -- 18. Drawing human figures and caricatures -- disc 4: 19. Colossus: the sculpture for Ludovico Sforza -- 20. The making of The last supper -- 21. The meaning of The last supper -- 22. Mantua, Isabella d'Este, and Venice -- 23. Return to Florence: Sfumato and an exhibition -- 24. Leonardo, Cesare Borgia, and Machiavelli -- disc 5: 25. Michelangelo and Leonardo -- 26. Mona Lisa: La Gioconda -- 27. Raphael and Leonardo -- 28. Leonardo in Milan and Pope Julius II in Rome -- 29. The anatomical drawings: his greatest works? -- 30. In praise of painting: Leonardo's manifesto -- disc 6: 31. Leonardo and the Medici in Rome -- 32. High Renaissance art from Rome to venice -- 33. Last years: Leonardo in France -- 34. Renaissance man and man of the Renaissance -- 35. The end of an era -- 36. The legacies of Leonardo da Vinci

Course no. 7111

Lecturer: Professor George R. Bent, Washington and Lee University

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