A HANGED MAN'S CLOTHES: Leonardo da Vinci's fascination with dressing.

The article discusses Florence, a place dear to Outi Merisalo and also one of her favourite colours, namely purple, by exploring Leonardo da Vinci's (1452-1519) notes on clothing. It demonstrates the crucial importance of dressing to the painter and reveals a part of his wardrobe and his preferred colours for fabrics. Special attention is paid to a spare sheet of paper on which Leonardo diligently documents a hanged man's clothes both in text and with a sketch. This is rare visual evidence of the Pazzi conspiracy (1478) in Florence and an extraordinary specimen among the very small number of notes written by Leonardo before 1480. The image and a transcription of the document (Musée Bonnat-Helleu, Bayonne, inv. 659) are provided in the article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]