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Other portraits of Leonardo by himself and other hands exist, presenting a different image of Leonardo to the man as represented in the red chalk drawing. Another red chalk drawing, a profile portrait at Windsor, is attributed to his pupil Francesco Melzi. A sketch by an unknown assistant on the back of one of Leonardo's studies (c. 1517) has also been determined to be a portrait.
A self-portrait from Leonardo's Codex on the Flight of Birds depicts the artist at age 53. Leonardo may have also included a self-portrait in Luca Pacioli's Divina proportione, which he illustrated. A 1471 painting of Gabriel bears an inscription indicating that it is a self-portrait of Leonardo; this would be the earliest depiction of the artist.Leonardo is thought to be portrayed as Plato in Raphael's The School of Athens (1511). He may have been the model for two works by his master Verrocchio: the bronze statue of David (c. 1476) in the Bargello, and the archangel Raphael in Tobias and the Angel (c. 1475).Donato Bramante's Heraclitus and Democritus (1477) is thought by some to portray Leonardo as Heraclitus. Some suspect that the lower-right attendant in Leonardo's Adoration of the Magi (1481) may be a self-portrait.
A 1505 engraving by Marcantonio Raimondi may portray Leonardo playing a lira da braccio, but this has yet to be verified.There is no scholarly consensus on the attribution of the Lucan portrait to Leonardo, but it has at least on occasion been attributed to him. The engraving portrait by Raffaello Morghen and statue by Luigi Pampaloni were made after his lifetime. Romantic paintings by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, François-Guillaume Ménageot and other French artists, as well as Angelica Kauffman depict the legendary account of Leonardo's death in the hands of King Francis I of France.
Democritus The School of Athens Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres Lucan portrait Raphael Bargello Divina proportione lira da braccio Leonardo's death Angelica Kauffman self-portrait Francis I of France Luca Pacioli 1505 engraving Luigi Pampaloni François-Guillaume Ménageot Tobias and the Angel Heraclitus and Democritus Francesco Melzi David Codex on the Flight of Birds Plato Gabriel Raffaello Morghen Adoration of the Magi Donato Bramante statue Marcantonio Raimondi Heraclitus engraving portrait Verrocchio archangel