{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/0680.htm","path":"aor/dv/0680.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/0680.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nList of drawings.\n\u00a0\u00a0A head, full face, of a young man\n\u00a0\u00a0with fine flowing hair,\n\u00a0\u00a0Many flowers drawn from nature,\n\u00a0\u00a0A head, full face, with curly hair,\n\u00a0\u00a0Certain figures of Saint Jerome,\n\u00a0\u00a0[6] The measurements of a figure,\n\u00a0\u00a0Drawings of furnaces.\n\u00a0\u00a0A head of the Duke,\n\u00a0\u00a0[9] many designs for knots,\n\u00a0\u00a04 studies for the panel of Saint Angelo\n\u00a0\u00a0A small composition of Girolamo da Fegline,\n\u00a0\u00a0A head of Christ done with the pen,\n\u00a0\u00a0[13] 8 Saint Sebastians,\n\u00a0\u00a0Several compositions of Angels,\n\u00a0\u00a0A chalcedony,\n\u00a0\u00a0A head in profile with fine hair,\n\u00a0\u00a0Some pitchers seen in(?) perspective,\n\u00a0\u00a0Some machines for ships,\n\u00a0\u00a0Some machines for waterworks,\n\u00a0\u00a0A head, a portrait of Atalanta raising her\n\u00a0\u00a0face;\n\u00a0\u00a0The head of Geronimo da Fegline,\n\u00a0\u00a0The head of Gian Francisco Borso,\n\u00a0\u00a0Several throats of old women,\n\u00a0\u00a0Several heads of old men,\n\u00a0\u00a0Several nude figures, complete,\n\u00a0\u00a0Several arms, eyes, feet, and positions,\n\u00a0\u00a0A Madonna, finished,\n\u00a0\u00a0Another, nearly in profile,\n\u00a0\u00a0Head of Our Lady ascending into Heaven,\n\u00a0\u00a0A head of an old man with long chin,\n\u00a0\u00a0A head of a gypsy girl,\n\u00a0\u00a0A head with a hat on,\n\u00a0\u00a0A representation of the Passion, a cast,\n\u00a0\u00a0A head of a girl with her hair gathered in a knot,\n\u00a0\u00a0A head, with the brown hair dressed.\n356:316 : 680. This has already been published by AMORETTI Memorie storiche cap. XVI. His reading varies somewhat from that here given, e. g. l. 5 and 6. Certi Sangirolami in su d'una figura; and instead of I. 13. Un San Bastiano.\n356:317 : 680. 9. Molti disegni di gruppi. VASARI in his life of Leonardo (IV, 21, ed. MILANESI 1880) says: \"Oltrech\u00e9 perse tempo fino a disegnare gruppi di corde fatti con ordine, e che da un capo seguissi tutto il resto fino all' altro, tanto che s'empiessi un tondo; che se ne vede in istampa uno difficilissimo e molto bello, e nel mezzo vi sono queste parole: Leonardus Vinci Accademia\". Gruppi must here be understood as a technical expression for those twisted ornaments which are well known through wood cuts. AMORETTI mentions six different ones in the Ambrosian Library. I am indebted to M. DELABORDE for kindly informing me that the original blocks of these are preserved in his department in the Biblioth\u00e8que Nationale in Paris. On the cover of these volumes is a copy from one of them. The size of the original is 23 1/2 centimetres by 26 1/4. The centre portion of another is given on p. 361. G. Govi remarks on these ornaments (Saggio p. 22): \"Codesti gruppi eran probabilmente destinati a servir di modello a ferri da rilegatori per adornar le cartelle degli scolari (?). Fregi somigliantissimi a questi troviamo infatti impressi in oro sui cartoni di vari volumi contemporanei, e li vediam pur figurare nelle lettere iniziali di alcune edizioni del tempo.\"\nD\u00fcrer who copied them, omitting the inscription, added to the second impressions his own monogram. In his diary he designates them simply as \"Die sechs Knoten\" (see THAUSING, Life of A. D\u00fcrer I, 362, 363). In Leonardo's MSS. we find here and there little sketches or suggestions for similar ornaments. Compare too G. MONGERI, L'Arte in Milano, p. 315 where an ornament of the same character is given from the old decorations of the vaulted ceiling of the Sacristy of S. Maria delle Grazie.\n356:318 : 680, 17. The meaning in which the word coppi, literally pitchers, is here used I am unable to determine; but a change to copie seems to me too doubtful to be risked.","title":"Vol. I: X. Studies and Sketches for Pictures and Decorations: 680.","type":"page"}