Leonardo da Vinci

	"While he was engaged on this work Leonardo proposed to the Duke that he should make a huge equestrian statue in bronze as a memorial to his father; then he started and carried the work forward on such a scale that it was impossible to finish it; the reason he failed was, as our Petrarch has said, the desire outran the performance." I-264 Design for the Trivulzio monument (which Leonardo based on his ideas for the Sforza monument)
	The only sculpture by Leonardo to survive Model for an equestrian statue of Francis I of France
	"Leonardo applied himself to the study of human anatomy, in which he collaborated with that excellent philosopher Marc Antonio della Torre, who was then lecturing at Pavia. Della Torre was the first to throw true light on anatomy, which up till then had been obscured by the shadows of ignorance." I-264 Vitruvian man
	"In this he was wonderfully served by the intelligence, work and hand of Leonardo, who composed a book annotated in pen and ink in which he did meticulous drawings in red chalk of bodies he had dissected himself." I-264 Torso
	"He showed all the bone structure, adding in order all the nerves and covering them with the muscles; the first attached to the skeleton, the second that hold it firm and the third that move it. In the various sections he wrote his observations in puzzling characters (written in reverse with the left hand) which cannot be deciphered by anyone who does not know the trick of reading them in a mirror." I-264 Skeletons
	Arms
	Larynx and leg
	"Reading Leonardo's writings one is astonished at the brilliant way in which this inspired artist discussed so thoroughly art and anatomy and indeed every kind of subject. There are also some of his papers (again written in reverse with the left hand) which discuss painting and methods of drawing and colouring." I-265 Sketchbook
	From the Codex Arundel
	"[Given a commission by the Servite friars in Florence] Leonardo kept them waiting a long time without even starting anything, and then finally he did a cartoon showing Our Lady with St Anne and the Infant Christ. This work not only won the astonished admiration of all the artists but attracted a crowd of men and women who flocked there to gaze in amazement at the marvels he had created." I-266 Virgin and Child with St Anne, Louvre
	"Leonardo also did a portrait of Ginevra, the wife of Amerigo Benci, a very beautiful painting." I-266 Portrait of Ginevra Benci