Labels:text | document | letter | font | handwriting | screenshot | number | paper | ink OCR: Inventory of Salai's Estate April 21, 1525 TE Milan, Archivio di Stato di Milano, Fondo Notarile, not. Pietro Paolo Crevenna, f. 8316 By one means or another, Leonardo's friend and assistant of nearly 30 years, Gian Giacomo Caprotti, known as "Salai," appears to have come into possession of most or all of the paintings the master had with him in France at the time of his death. Salai himself died of gunshot wounds in 1524. An inventory of Salai's estate, drawn up so that his effects could be divided between his two quarrelsome sisters, includes a list of the paintings he owned-some by Leonardo and some by Salai. The list of paintings from both the original inventory, or imbreviatura, and the formal inventory-the extensa-are presented here in translation. In the extensa, the reference to th ...
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