Leonardo da Vinci and Gian Giacomo Caprotti Called Sala: The Enigma of a Painting

An exceptional discovery on the relations between the great master and his favorite assistant.

"Salai" is the name that Leonardo da Vinci liked to use, as is documented in his writings from 1494 onward, for the boy whom he had taken into his home four years earlier, when he was just ten years old, and who lived with him for almost a quarter of a century: first as a shop boy and then as his assistant and model, as well as becoming, according to what the sources tell us, his pupil and companio...