Bernardo Bandini Baroncelli

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The execution of Bernardo Bandini Baroncelli (Leonardo da Vinci)
The execution of
Bernardo Bandini Baroncelli
Leonardo da Vinci , 1479
Ink on paper
19.2 x 7.3 cm
Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne

Bernardo Bandini Baroncelli (born January 15, 1420 in Florence , † December 29, 1479 ibid) was an Italian banker and assassin .

Life

Bandini worked in Florence as a banker in the service of the Tuscan aristocratic Pazzi family . As a follower of the Pazzi he participated in the so-called Pazzi conspiracy in 1478 . The aim of the conspiracy was to break the power of the Medici family in Florence. A knife attack in Florence Cathedral on Easter Sunday April 26th 1478 led to the death of Giuliano de 'Medici . The actual target of the attack, the city lord of Florence Lorenzo il Magnifico ("Lorenzo the Magnificent"), escaped injured. The coup failed.

Bandini was probably Giuliano's murderer. While the other members of the conspiratorial group were killed on the following days, Bandini initially managed to escape to Constantinople . In the spring of 1479 Sultan Mehmed II (1432–1481) had him arrested and at the end of 1479 Lorenzo was extradited through negotiations with the Sublime Porte .

Bandini was returned to Florence, on December 28, 1479 sentenced to death and the following day in the Palazzo del Bargello through the strand executed.

The sketch of Leonardo da Vinci

The Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519) made a sketch of the exposed corpse of the hanged Bernardo Bandini Baroncelli on a sheet of his notebooks .

The pen drawing shows the body of the executed man in oriental clothing with carefully drawn folds . The same sheet shows a separate study of the head and Leonardo's detailed notes on the execution of the clothes and their colors in the mirror writing he often used .

Today the graphic is in the collection of the Musée Bonnat-Helleu in Bayonne , France as a single sheet measuring 19.2 cm × 7.3 cm .

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  • Niccolò Machiavelli : History of Florence. Book 8: From the Pazzi Conspiracy to the Death of Lorenzo the Illustrious, 1492. Phaidon, Vienna 1934 ( full text online in the Gutenberg project)

literature

Web links

Commons : Bernardo Bandini Baroncelli  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Guido Pampaloni:  Bandini dei Baroncelli, Bernardo. In: Alberto M. Ghisalberti (Ed.): Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani (DBI). Volume 5:  Bacca-Baratta. Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, Rome 1963.
  2. ↑ a b Edgar beer end (ed.): Rites, gestures, ceremonies: Social symbolism in medieval and early modern times. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-11-020802-3 , p. 204.
  3. ↑ a b Ingeborg Walter: The Magnificent. Lorenzo de 'Medici and his time. CH Beck, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-406-58273-8 , p. 161.
  4. ^ Marie Herzfeld: Leonardo da Vinci. Thinker, researcher and poet. Severus, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-95801-003-1 , p. XI.
  5. ↑ Bonnat-Helleu Museum
personal data
SURNAME Bandini Baroncelli, Bernardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian banker and assassin
DATE OF BIRTH January 15, 1420
PLACE OF BIRTH Florence
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 1479
Place of death Florence