Visualizing Medieval Medicine and Natural History, 1200–1550 by Givens Jean A. Reeds Karen M. Touwaide Alain

Author:Givens, Jean A.,Reeds, Karen M.,Touwaide, Alain.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (CAM)

Chapter 6

Leonardo da Vinci’s Anatomical Studies in Milan: A Re-examination of Sites and Sources

Monica Azzolini

On Sunday 26 April 1478, Giuliano de’ Medici was murdered as he attended High Mass in Florence’s cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore. Led by members of the Pazzi family with the support of Count Girolamo Riario, Pope Sixtus IV, and Federico da Montefeltro, the conspirators planned to kill both Lorenzo de’ Medici and Giuliano. The events of that day seized the imagination of contemporary Florentines. In his Istorie Fiorentine, Machiavelli recounts how one of the conspirators, Bernardo di Bandino Baroncelli, stabbed Giuliano in the stomach and inflicted many more wounds on his body as Giuliano lay on the floor.1 Having failed to kill Lorenzo, Bernardo fled Florence and took refuge in Turkey, but he was eventually tracked down and extradited. On 28 December 1478, he was hanged publicly in Florence. Bernardo’s public execution is famously recorded in Leonardo da Vinci’s pen-and-ink sketch of his hanging body. This is Leonardo’s first extant sketch of the body of a criminal.2

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