The 'Cartones of Leonardo da Vinci'

• Autores: Linda Wolk-Simon
• Localización: Burlington magazine, ISSN 0007-6287, Vol. 153, Nº 1296, 2011, págs. 148-155
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Hitherto unknown or unconsidered written accounts have permitted the recovery of the early provenance of a series of colored chalk drawings of heads of Christ and the Apostles made by Leonardo da Vinci for his Last Supper. The drawings were formerly in the collection of Sir Thomas Lawrence and later in that of the Grand Dukes of Saxe-Weimar, and the series is now dispersed. According to a long-accepted (although now demonstrably erroneous) provenance, the ex-Saxe-Weimar Heads can be traced from the Arconati collection in Milan in the early 17th century to that of the Grand Dukes of Saxe-Weimar, who retained them until 1968, when they were sold at auction. The writer shows, however, that the new provenance locates those cartoons together and intact in Milan, Italy, until the close of the 18th century.