Da Vinci's Ghost by Lester Toby

Author:Lester, Toby [Lester, Toby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781846684548
Amazon: 1846684544
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2011-11-10T07:00:00+00:00

IT WAS THE moment Leonardo had been waiting for. “When fortune comes,” he would write in about 1490, “seize her firmly by the forelock, for she is bald at the back.” Already he had made himself known to the Sforza court as a precociously talented artist and engineer. Now he had a chance to prove what he could do as an architect, by helping to solve one of the great building challenges of his age, just as Brunelleschi had done in Florence.

Whether Leonardo attended the initial council meeting isn’t known. But there’s plenty of circumstantial evidence to suggest that he did. In the months that followed the meeting he began to use paper that has been traced back to the cathedral supply. He started doodling designs in his notebooks for the cathedral’s dome, too, many of them distinctly modeled after Brunelleschi’s dome (Figure 29). And in the summer of 1487 he hired a local carpenter to build an elaborate wooden model of a solution he had worked out for the dome, the cost of which the cathedral deputies themselves covered.

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