«Due Nostre Donne di varie grandezze» di Leonardo a Milano
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«Due Nostre Donne di varie grandezze» by Leonardo in Milan
EDOARDO VILLATA
In the drafts of two letters datable to 1508, to be sent to Charles
d’Amboise and to Goffredo Carolo, Leonardo states that he had done «in
assai buon porto» two «Nostre Donne» destined for the King of France; yet
we know nothing of these works. They cannot be identified with any
known Leonardesque work, but they must have existed. They must have
been works of a relatively small format, connected with the inventions
between 1505-1506, and they must have been known mainly in Lombardy.
Perhaps there is a hypothetical model that corresponds to such
characteristics: the one behind a certain number of Lombard Nativities
of the second decade of the 16th Century, the best example of which is
the one from the church of Santa Maria dei Canali in Tortona. Also, the
model was still popular in the seventeenth century, thus very
authoritative even if inaccessible today.
We can find the oldest account of it in a drawing under the layer of paint
in a Madonna at Brera, convincingly attributed to Fernando Yáñez de
Almedina, a Spanish artist who was with Leonardo until 1506. This drawing
shows an inclined female head, along the lines of very well-known
examples such as Leonardo’s St. John the Baptist or Leda, and very similar to
that of some Madonnas painted by Raphael in his Florentine years. Hence
the hypothesis that such a prestigious model could only be the sketch for
one of the «due Nostre Donne» which Leonardo himself mentions.
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