LEONARDO DA VINCI 1452-1519

Giovanni Antonio BOLTRAFFIO Milan, 1467–Milan, 1516 Young Girl Crowned with Flowers Oil on walnut panel About 1494–1496 Art historians are uncertain of the sitter’s gender, but the costume is definitely that of a girl.The sitter has sometimes been identified as a five or six-year-old girl from the court of Milan; it could be the Duke Gian Galeazzo Sforza’s second daughter Bona, born in 1493. North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, inv. Kress 2190 Attributed to Marco d’Oggiono Oggiono?, about 1470–Milan, 1524 Young Man Holding an Arrow Oil on panel About 1490–1494 Several paintings by members of Leonardo’s circle depict a young man in contemporary costume holding an arrow.The presence of a halo suggests Saint Sebastian, but the portraits without halos could be allegorical figures whose arrows, evoking Apollo or Eros, allude to the wounds of love. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, inv. 1986.9 0 77 0 78 Attributed to Marco d’Oggiono Oggiono (?), about 1470–Milan, 1524 Young Man Holding an Arrow Oil on panel About 1490–1494 Several paintings by members of Leonardo’s circle depict a young man in conte porary costume holding an arrow. The presence of a halo suggests Saint Sebastian, but the portraits without hal s could be all goric l figures whose arrows, evoking Apollo or Eros, allude to the wounds of love. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, inv. 1986.9 0 78