AMBROSIANA ART GALLERY, Portrait Of A Musician - Da Vinci

Among Leonardo's various "trestle" paintings completed in the eighteen years he lived in Milan, this Portrait of a musician is the only one that can still be found in Milan.

The painting has been dated at around 1485, that is, a few years before the Last Supper. Recently art critics were able to identify the young man with the intense stare depicted in the portrait: it is Atalante Migliorotti, a musician and friend of Leonardo's who came with him to the court of Ludovico il Moro from Florence at a time when the cultural history of Milan's Renaissance was flourishing. The fact that he's a musician can be confirmed by the score he holds in his right hand. In the past he has been identified as the same Duke Ludovico il Moro, or as the Cathedral's choirmaster, or as a Flemish musician who was also present at the Duke's court....