Da Vinci's Ghost (35 page)

cosmos, the

age-old theories
xiii

Aristotle on
28

armillary sphere
83
,
84

and cathedrals
130
–31

contemplation before temple-building
38
–39

geocentric
28
,
29

Greeks liken the human body to
174

meaning of the word
28

Plato on
27
,
53

set square with the cardinal directions
30
,
31

Vitruvius on
28

D

Da Vinci Code, The
(Dan Brown)
ix

Dante Alighieri
170
,
173

Dark Ages
49

De ponderibus
5
,
171

de Predis brothers
104
,
120

decumanus
32

decumanus maximus
31
,
32

Dei, Benedetto
68
,
69

Democritus
144
,
144

Diana (moon goddess)
24

dissections
xiv
,
159
–67,
165
,
181
,
183
–85,
185
,
188

doctors/physicians
33
,
58
,
102
,
175
,
176
,
185
,
188

Doric order
26

Durandus, William, bishop of Mende
131
–32

Dürer, Albrecht
213

E

earth, the: geocentric concept
28
,
29

Ebstorf mappamundi
60
–61, Pl.
4

Egypt, Mark Antony defeated by Octavius in
14

elements, four
33
–4,
56
,
57
,
133
, Psl.
1
,
2

empire
xiii

architecture builds empire
27

Augustus redefines the idea of empire
14

blueprint for race-based ideology of
34
–36

the body of
18
,
19
,
21
–24,
22
,
32
,
35
,
36
,
38
,
40
,
45
,
61
,
174

ideology of
24
,
35
,
40

signifying an abstract power (pre-Augustus)
18
–19

Epistles of the Brethren of Purity
58
–60

Etruscans

site selection and town planning
32

temple designs
16

Euclid:
Elements of Geometry
173

Eugenius III, Pope
44

Europe

early medieval
46
,
47

grimly feudal
46

technological revolution and intellectual shift (twelfth century)
51
–52

Eve
167

evolution
49
–50

F

Fazio, Messer (professor in Pavia)
5
,
6

Ferrara, Giacomo Andrea da
201
–3,
204
,
205
,
206
,
210
,
213
,
224

Ferrara cathedral
6

Ficino, Marsilio
95

Platonic Theology
85
–86,
212

Fiesole, bishop of
111

Filarete (Antonio di Pietro Averlino)
156
,
158
,
173
,
196
,
199
,
209

Libro architettonico
154
–55

finitorium
(“definer”)
88
–89,
89
,
191

first causes/principles
10
,
121
,
142
,
160

Florence

art workshops
xiv
,
71

artisans and craftspeople
71
–72

artists’ private commissions
96

churches
68
,
69

coordinate-based mapping
87

homosexuality in (late fifteenth century)
78
,
79

hub of the Italian Renaissance
62

humanists of
95
,
96
,
101
,
111
,
117

Leonardo’s arrival in
66
–68,
67
,
70

Milanese state visit (1471)
99
–101

Neoplatonists in
85

Palazzo Vecchio
92

relationship with Milan
98
,
99
,
130

a renowned center of medical learning and practice
164

Sant’ Ambrogio
71

trading wealth
68
–69

transformation of
69
–70

Verrocchio’s studios
71
–75

Florence cathedral (Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore)
67
–70,
95
,
98
,
109
–12,
115
,
130
,
132
,
140
–41

Florus
18

François I, King of France
225

Franks
130
,
148

French style
129

Frontinus
62

G

Galen
37
,
173
,
188

De juvamentis stomachi
166

Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice Office of Drawings and Prints
xv

Vitruvian Man in
xiv
–xv,
218
,
219
,
222

geography
35
,
40
,
54
,
60
,
131
,
132
–33,
173
,
216

of the human ideal
91
,
191
,
209
,
216

Geography I
48

geometry
ix
,
xii
,
8
,
26
,
27
,
48
,
54
,
106
,
119
,
132
,
133
,
134
,
136
,
138
,
169

Ghiberti, Lorenzo
163

Ghirlandaio, Domenico
97

Gianetto, Maestro
6

Giovio, Paolo
213

gnomon
95

God

as architect of the world
28
–29,
128
,
132
–3,
161
, Psl.
6
,
7

in Hildegard’s microcosm
116
, Pl.
5

man created in his own image
49

Gospels
133

Goths
130
,
148

Greece, ancient

human body embodying laws of nature
34

measurement based on the human body
36
–37

medical writings
166

Polykleitos’s
Spear Bearer
21
–22,
22
,
23
,
24

temple designs
16

Gutenberg, Johannes
20
–21

H

harmony
18
,
21
,
40
,
82
,
106
,
150
,
182
,
210

Héloïse d’Argenteuil
127

Heraclitus
144
,
144
,
215

Heribert of Cologne
133

Hildegard of Bingen, St.
xiv
,
42
–4,
60
,
116
, Pl.
3

Hildegard of Bingen, St.

abbess of St. Rupert’s monastery
44
,
128

fame and influence of
44

ideas of the microcosm
44
,
55
,
61
, Pl.
5

interests and activities
42
–43

reveals her secret to her superior
44

at St. Disibod monastery
44

visions
42
,
43
–44,
50
–51

and Vitruvian Man
44
,
61

The Book Divine Works
50
–51,
55
–56,
61

Causes and Cures
55
,
56

Holy Ghost/Spirit
50
, Pl.
5

Holy Land
131

homosexuality

of Leonardo
78
–79

in late-fifteenth-century Florence
78

Saltarelli affair
77
–80

Honorius
173

Horace
16

Hugh of St. Victor
105
,
173

human analogy
8
,
10
,
33
,
86
,
132
,
154
–55,
155
,
156
,
173
–74,
197
,
223

human body

Alberti on proportions
87

Alberti’s ideal human form
89
–91,
90

Augustus’s transformation
20
,
20
,
21

The Craftsman’s Handbook
on
74
–75

cruciform churches
131
–32

dissections
see
anatomy

embodying laws of nature
34

four elements
34
,
133

Greeks liken it to the cosmos
174

Hildegard’s discussion of its proportions
61

as a machine
106

man created in God’s image
49

man fitting inside a circle and a square
xi
,
xii
,
116
,
197
,
198
,
203
,
206
,
209
–10,
212
,
216
,
217

mapping in three dimensions using
finitorium
or “definer”
88
–89,
89

Martini on the human body and design
8
,
9
,
10

Polykleitos’s ideal proportions of the human figure
21
,
22
,
37

and proportions of temples
xi
–xii

and remaking the body of empire
21
–24,
22

as a scaled-down version of the world as a whole (microcosm theory)
xii
,
33
–34,
49
,
55
–56,
58
–60,
164
,
174
,
212

used in measurement
36
–37

Villard’s connections between the human body and architecture
134
–35,
135

of woman
75

human spirit, godly nature of the
85
–87

humanism, humanists
xiv
,
81
,
87
,
95
,
96
,
101
,
111
,
117
,
148
,
150
,
151
,
170
,
174

humors, four Psl.
1
,
2

I

Ionic order
26

Isaiah, Book of
129

Isidore of Seville
49
,
50
,
55
,
105
,
173
,
174

Islamic sages
58

J

Jerusalem
60
–61,
173

Jupiter (planet)
35

K

Ketham, Johannes:
Fasciculus medicinae
165

L

Lambeth Palace world map
x
,
xi

Leonardo da Vinci and Alberti’s influence
81
,
149
,
150

and animal anatomy
159
–62,
188

appearance
3
–4,
214
–15

apprenticed to Verrocchio
71
–75,
91
,
223

the artist as a Creator
83
,
85

birth (15 April 1452) and baptism
63
–64

and Bramante
143
–45,
144
,
149
,
156
,
224

Brunelleschi as a role model
112

childhood
64
–66,
117

and de Predis workshop in Milan
104
,
120

death (1519)
219
,
225

decides to move to Milan
97
,
101

earliest surviving drawing
64
,
65

empirical investigations of the world
105
–7,
121
,
169

and fables
76
,
79
–80,
119
,
160

and first causes/principles
10
,
121
,
142
,
160

first encounter with the ghost of Vitruvian Man
74

first recorded commission
92

homosexuality of
78
–79

human motion studies
214
,
215

and jokes
4
,
76
,
119

and the Medicis
80
–81

and Milan cathedral
140
–42,
141

and military engineering
120
–23,
124
,
125
,
143