V

• della Vaccha, Acchattabriga
• Valentino, Count see Borgia, Cesare (Il Valentino)
• Valla, Lorenzo
• Vasari, Giorgio
  • confused about cartoon
  • creation of legends
  • da Vinci family and Medici
  • on Ghirlandaio
  • on La Gioconda
  • Giovio as source on L.
  • Lives of the Artists
  • on L.’s bitterness in Rome
  • on L.’s musical qualities
  • L.’s tells of childhood
  • on oil techniques
  • on Verrocchio’s awe of L.
  • on Verrocchio’s painting
  • version of Saint Anne
• La Velata (Raphael)
• Venice
  • aggression against Milan
  • alliances of
  • L. travels to
  • Ludovico Sforza’s pact with
  • Milan and
  • Ottoman attack
  • powerful and ambitious
  • spies in
  • strength of
• Venzel, Prince of Lichtenstein
• Verino, Ugolino
  • De illustriorum urbis Florentiae
• del Verrocchio, Andrea
  • artists’ materials and crafts
  • assesses young L.’s talent
  • completes cathedral cupola
  • di Credi inherits from
  • Florence in background
  • L. joins workshop of
  • legacy to di Credi
  • life and career of
  • L.’s residence with
  • mankind and human bodies
  • military commissions
  • as a painter
  • production system of
  • sculpture of
  • warm relations with L.
  • works of
    • Baptism of Christ
    • Christ and Saint Thomas bronze group
    • David
    • Head of a Woman
    • Madonna with seated Child
    • Tobias and the Angel
    • Woman with a Bouquet
• Vesalius, Andreas
  • treatise on anatomy
• Vespucci, Agostino
  • on La Gioconda
  • sceptical about L.’s work
• de Villani, Battista de
• da Vinci, Albiera di Giovanni Amadori (L.’s first stepmother)
• da Vinci, Antonio (L.’s grandfather)
  • death of
  • good relationship with L.
  • house and means of
  • L.’s birth and
  • paper in household of
  • upbringing of L. and
• da Vinci, Antonio (L.’s half-brother)
• da Vinci, Francesca di Giuliano Lanfredini (L.’s second stepmother)
• da Vinci, Francesco (L.’s uncle)
  • death of and contested will
  • good relationship with L.
  • leaves L. inheritance
  • L.’s childhood with
• da Vinci, Leonardo see Leonardo da Vinci
• da Vinci, Lucia (L.’s grandmother)
  • good relationship with L.
  • L.’s upbringing
• da Vinci, Lucrezia (L.’s fourth stepmother)
• da Vinci, Margherita (L.’s third stepmother)
• da Vinci, Piero (L.’s father)
  • association with St Joseph
  • first marriages without children
  • kite dream and
  • L. shaken by death of
  • leaves nothing to L.
  • and L.’s mother
  • many children of
  • moves L. to Florence
  • poor relations with L.
  • prosperity in Florence
  • shows Verrocchio L.’s drawings
  • suggestion of in Adoration of the Magi
• Vinci, Tuscany
  • L.’s early years in
  • setting of
• da Vinci, Violante (L.’s aunt)
• Virgin and Child with Saint Anne (Leonardo)
  • Michelangelo and
  • Vasari on cartoon for
  • see also Saint Anne, the Virgin and the Child
• Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and the Infant Saint John (Leonardo) see the Burlington House cartoon
• Virgin and Child with Two Angels (Verrocchio workshop)
• The Virgin of the Rocks (Leonardo)
  • commission of
  • compared to the Burlington House cartoon
  • completion of
  • composition and interpretation of
  • Francis I admires
  • geology of rocks
  • light and colour
  • ongoing question of
  • scientific principles and
  • two versions of
• Vitelli, Vitellozzo
• Vitellio/Witelo
• Vitruvius Man see Proportions of the Human Figure
• Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus
  • Florentine architecture and
  • L.’s study of
• Vittorio Emanuele, duke of Savoia
• Volterra rebellion
• de Voragine, Jacobus
  • The Golden Legend

W

• Weyden, Rogier van der
• Woman with a Bouquet (Verrocchio)

Z

• Zoroastro see Masini, Tommaso