Sublime

Léonard de Vinci fait son entrée à la cour de Ludovic Sforza non pas comme architecte ou ingénieur, mais comme créateur de divertissements. Lors de ses années d’apprentissage chez Verrocchio, il a déjà brillé dans la mise en scène d’événements fantaisistes, un talent très recherché par les Sforza, qui asseyent leur pouvoir via des performances et d

Leonardo got to pursue, in a leisurely and broad fashion, all of his curiosities and passions at the Melzi villa. Though he no longer had access to human corpses, he dissected animals, including the rib cages of oxen and still-beating hearts of pigs. He completed his geology writings in the Codex Leicester, analyzing the nearby rock formations and

Pacioli later called Leonardo the “most worthy of painters, perspectivists, architects and musicians, one endowed with every perfection,” and he recalled “that happy time when we were both in the employ of the most illustrious Duke of Milan, Ludovico Maria Sforza Anglo, in the years of Our Lord 1496 to 1499.”

When Leonardo was a teenager in Florence, Alberti was in his sixties and spending much of his time in Rome, so it is unlikely they spent time together. Alberti was a major influence nonetheless. Leonardo studied his treatises and consciously tried to emulate both his writing and his demeanor.