Its manifesto exalts both the companionable and cosmic qualities of felines, citing their roles in religion, literature, mythology and art, from the ancient Egyptian goddess Bastet to the words of Bohemian poet Rainer Maria Rilke: Life plus a cat…adds up to an incalculable sum.
The same nameless, dexterous cat Marina describes in the early paragraphs of her Leonardo chapter inspired numerous drawings, notably a series of Virgin and Christ Child with a Cat sketches. God himself made the gatto good, in other words. Image via www. It is clear from his sketches that he had live models sitting for the painting, including a real woman, a real infant, and a real cat. It is also very clear that this combination was a troublesome one.
In each of the sketches, the infant is obviously struggling to keep hold of the cat, and in one of them he appears to be nearly strangling it in his efforts to stop it from jumping down and stalking angrily out of the studio. The animal is drawn by Leonardo with great observational honesty and is shown writhing this way and that, trying desperately to escape.
Anyone who has ever been asked to hold a cat for any length of time to please a photographer will know how difficult this can become once the cat has decided that it has had enough. A dog might stay put for hours, but a cat has a much shorter fuse. Leonardo has brilliantly caught this struggle between infant and cat, but the sketches he made were obviously dashed off at high speed. It must have dawned on him that any attempt to keep the cat there for the many hours needed for a detailed portrait painting would be doomed to failure.
As a result, we have been robbed of a finished painting of a cat by the grand master. These are not pretty, cuddly pet cats; they are almost certainly working house cats kept to control rodents.
The artist catches them engaged in typical feline activities: cleaning themselves, rolling over, fighting, resting, crouching, or bristling with fear. An odd feature of his cat images is that although they show highly characteristic feline postures, their faces are unusually pointed—too long for a typical modern pet cat.
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