Folio VII · Commissioni · Commission the bottega
Commission a work
Portraits, altarpieces, machines, maps and court festivals. Delivery estimates are honest — the Mona Lisa took sixteen years, and I have never once finished early.
The bottega answers letters, not calls. Seal yours below.
Portrait
From one ducat a day, plus pigments
- Life sittings with music to keep the sitter at ease
- Full-size cartoon for your approval
- Oil on poplar or walnut, sfumato finish
Delivery: 4 to 16 years
Engineering
By the project
- Bridges, canals, locks and fortifications
- Surveys and maps of your city or river
- Feasibility drawings and working models
Delivery: drawings in weeks; machines, centuries
Festival & stage
By the evening
- Automata — a mechanical lion that walks and opens its chest
- Revolving stages and painted heavens
- Costumes and music on the lira da braccio
Delivery: on the night, guaranteed
Write to the bottega
A letter, sealed in sanguine
Describe what you would like made. The studio is at the manor of Clos Lucé, Amboise, as it was in 1516.
This is an imagined studio. Your letter is sealed here in your own browser and is never sent or stored anywhere.
Sealed and set on the studio table
A letter about from . Leonardo will reply in his own time — which, as the record shows, may be considerable.
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