Image: Leda and the Swan (1508-1515) by Francesco Melzi, after a lost painting by Leonardo da Vinci, located at Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
Italian painter Francesco Melzi (1491-1570), the beloved assistant and pupil of Leonardo da Vinci, accompanied Leonardo on his trips to Rome in 1513 and to France in 1517. As a painter, Melzi worked closely with and for Leonardo. Some works, which were attributed to Leonardo during the nineteenth century, are now attributed to Melzi.
Francesco Melzi was born in a noble family of Milan. He joined the household of Leonardo da Vinci in 1506. Upon Leonardo's death, Melzi inherited his artistic and scientific works, manuscripts, and collections of Leonardo, and he was to administer the Leonardo estate. After returning to Italy, Melzi married and fathered a son, Orazio. After Melzi’s death on his estate in Vaprio d'Adda, his heirs sold the entire collection of Leonardo's works in Melzi’s possession.
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