This volume represents an important tool for getting to know every aspect of Leonardo’s work; his pictorial technique, his scientific and technological investigation, his study on anatomy, his Codices, and every suggestion produced by his genius.
All works and paintings are accompanied by descriptive and technical sheets. Besides, ample space has been given to images and details, to the updated report on his most controversial works, to those of recent critical acceptance, and to the masterpieces that have animated the international debate as The Encarnate Angel, the Salvator Mundi, and La Bella Principessa (Portrait of Bianca Sforza).
The narrative captions reveal the most curious aspects of the history of each painting. Thanks to the direct contribution of collectors and museums the photographic reproductions of paintings and works reflect the last restorations.

Martin Kemp
Emeritus Professor of History of Art at the Oxford University and Member of the British Academy. He has curated several exhibitions dedicated to the work of Leonardo of whom he is one of the greatest international scholar. He has published several books and essays translated all over the world, and he has carried out the most extensive research on the painting called by himself “La Bella Principessa” by Leonardo.

Fabio Scaletti
A writer, a scholar of Renaissance art, and an expert on the attributional themes, he is the author of several publications in magazines and volumes. A Caravaggio specialist, he later extended his research to the great masters of the Italian Renaissance, with particular attention to the news of the debate among critics, experts and researchers on the most celebrated works of art history and on the new investigations and discoveries.

− Foreword
− Introduction
− M adonna and Child with a Pomegranate (Dreyfus Madonna)
(1469-72)
− Profi le of a Warrior in Helmet (1472 ca.)
− Madonna of the Carnation (1472-78)
− Arno Landscape dated 5th August (1473)
− Baptism of Christ (1473-78)
− The Annunciation - Uffi zi (1473-78)
− Study of Hands (1475 ca.)
− Portrait of Ginevra de’ Benci (1475 ca.)
− S tudy for the Head of a Madonna (1475-80)
− The Annunciation - Louvre (1478?)
− Benois Madonna (1478-80)
− Study for the Virgin and Child with Cat (1478-81)
− E xploded Winch, Hydraulic Engineers and Submarines, and Vite
di Archimede (1478-87)
− Saint Jerome in the Desert (1480-82)
− The Adoration of the Magi (1481-82)
− Apocryphal Letter to Ludovico il Moro (1482)
− Studies for Defensive Instruments and Firearms (1482 ca.)
− The Virgin of the Rocks - Parigi and Londra (1483-86; 1495-1508)
− Portrait of Musician (1485-90)
− Weapon repertoire (1487 ca.)
− Architecture and Urban Planning for the Città Ideale (1487 ca.)
− Lady with Ermine (or Portrait of Cecilia Gallerani) (1487-90)
− La Belle Ferronnière (Lucrezia Crivelli?) (1490-95)
− Litta Madonna (1490 ca.)
− Vitruvian Man (1490 ca.)
− Anatomical Studies (1490 ca.-1510)
− Study of Perpetual Motion (1493 ca.)
− Casting Model for the Horse in the Sforza (1493 ca.)
− Cristo fanciullo (1495 ca.)
− Circular Winch (1495 ca.)
− Portrait of Bianca Sforza: “La Bella Principessa” (1496)
− The Last Supper (1495-98)
− Sala delle Asse (1498 ca.)
− Duodecedron abscisus elevatus solidus (1498 ca.)
− Salvator Mundi (1498-1507)
− Memorandum Ligny (1500 ca.)
− Portrait of Isabella d’Este - Louvre (1499-1500)
− Portrait of Isabella d’Este (1500?)
− The Madonna of the Yarnwinder (Madonna dell’aspo) (1501 ca.)
− Catography of Tuscany (1502-03)
− Study of Screaming Heads for The Battle of Anghiari (1503-05)
− Mona Lisa (1503-1515)
− Study for Leda and the Swan (1505 ca.)
− The Scapiliata (1505-1508)
− The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist
(1505-1508?)
− Madonna and Child with Saint Anne (1510-13 ca.)
− Saint John the Baptist (Bacchus) (1510-18)
− Saint John the Baptist (1513-17)
− The Encarnate Angel (1514-16)
− Lost works
− Where the Codices are Located
− The Life
− Bibliography