Francesco Melzi

Francesco Melzi
Vertumnus and Pomona (1518–1522) by Francesco Melzi
Born	Francesco Melzi c. 1491 Milano
Died	c. 1568-1570 Vaprio d'Adda
Occupation	Painter
Known for	The painting of Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci

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Francesco Melzi (ca. 1491 - 1568/1570) was an Italian painter. He was the son of a Milanese noble family. Melzi joined the household of Leonardo da Vinci in 1506. He accompanied Leonardo on trips to Rome in 1513 and to France in 1517. As a painter, Melzi worked closely with and for Leonardo. Some works which, during the nineteenth century, were attributed to Leonardo are today ascribed to Melzi.

Upon Leonardo's death, Melzi inherited the artistic and scientific works, manuscripts, and collections of Leonardo, and would henceforth faithfully administer the estate. Melzi wrote to Leonardo's brothers to notify them of his death, and in this letter he described Leonardo's love for his pupils as "sviscerato e ardentissimo amore",^[1] but like a son for a father ^[2]

Returning to Italy, Melzi married, and fathered a son, Orazio. When Orazio died on his estate in Vaprio d'Adda, his heirs sold the collection of Leonardo's works.

His painting "Flora" appears on the album cover of Mango's Gli amori son finestre.^[3]

References

↑ Nuova antologia edited by Francesco Protonotari, 1873; p.960
↑ Viaggio con Leonardo,published by Katia Ferri, 2016, p. 11-17
↑ "Mango: esce l'album "Gli amori son finestre"" (in Italian). musicroom.it. Retrieved 21 February 2015.

External links

Flora by Francesco Melzi at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Description of Vertumnus and Pomona.
Painters of reality: the legacy of Leonardo and Caravaggio in Lombardy, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Melzi (see index)

Leonardo da Vinci

List of works Science and inventions Personal life

Paintings	Medusa **The Annunciation **The Baptism of Christ The Madonna of the Carnation Ginevra de' Benci Benois Madonna The Adoration of the Magi St. Jerome in the Wilderness **Madonna Litta The Virgin of the Rocks (Louvre version) Portrait of a Musician Lady with an Ermine **The Virgin of the Rocks (London version) *La Belle Ferronnière *Salvator Mundi **Madonna of the Yarnwinder (two versions) The Virgin and Child with St. Anne Mona Lisa *Head of a Woman (La Scapigliata) Leda and the Swan St. John the Baptist

Works on walls	The Last Supper **Sala delle Asse The Battle of Anghiari

Sculptures	Sforza monument (unexecuted) *Horse and Rider

Works on paper	Vitruvian Man *Portrait of a Young Fiancée The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist Self-portrait Studies of the Fetus in the Womb

Manuscripts	Codex Arundel Codex Atlanticus Codex on the Flight of Birds Codex Leicester Codex Madrid Codex Trivulzianus Codex Urbinas

Other projects	De divina proportione Architonnerre Leonardo's crossbow Leonardo's fighting vehicle Leonardo's robot Leonardo's self-propelled cart Viola organista

Leonardeschi	Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio Cesare da Sesto Giampietrino Giovanni Agostino da Lodi Bernardino Luini Cesare Magni Marco d'Oggiono Francesco Melzi Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis Salaì Andrea Solari

Posthumous fame	Cultural references Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations Things named after Leonardo

Category Commons Wikiquote Wikisource Key: Attributed *Collaboration with other artists Lost

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 71356901 LCCN: nr2007001453 ISNI: 0000 0001 1769 3438 GND: 121378632 ULAN: 500020383 RKD: 55168

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