Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; (1898) (14743467956)

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Title: Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;

Year: 1898 (1890s)

Authors: Müntz, Eugène, 1845-1902

Subjects: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519

Publisher: London : W. Heinemann New York, C. Scribner's sons

Contributing Library: University of California Libraries

Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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aments sodear to Leonardo. 1 De Architecturà, éd. Winterberg, p. 144.—Mariotti, Lettere pittoriche perugitie,p. 127. - Fabroni, Historia AcademicB Fisajiff, vol. i., p. 392. ^ A German savant, Herr Winterberg, has had the courage to translate this chaoticwork, and to expound its fundamental law, the Golden Section, a magic formula, which,it is asserted, enables the student to establish the value of any work of art by means ofthree propositions ! This was an honour certainly undreamt of by the humble Pacioli ! ■» Repertorium fiir Kunstwissenschaft, i8Sr, p. 269-279.—Frère Lucas Pacioli deBourg sainct Sepulchre, de lordre des frères mineurs et theologien, qui a faict en vulgaritalien un libre intitule Divma Proportione, et qui a volu figurer lesdictes lettresAttiques, nen a point aussi parle ne baillé raison : et je ne men ébahis point, car jayentendu par aulcuns Italiens quil a desrobé sesdictes lettres, et prinses de feu messire Head of a Young Woman. (WINDSOR I.IDRARV.)

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Printed by Dr HIS STUDIES IN PHYSIOGNOMY 251 treatise were designed by, nay, that their type was the invention ofLeonardo. Inspired, no doubt, by a passage in Vitruvius, whichadvises that buildings should be given proportions analogous to thoseof the human body, he chose to divide his letters into ten parts, just ashe had done with the human figure. As early as 1514 Sigismondo Fanti, of Ferrara, made no scruple ofappropriating the new system of proportion of Leonardos letters inhis Theorica cf Pratica perspicassimi Sigisiiuindi dc Fantis Ferraricnsisin artcin uiathciiiaticc profcssoris dc modo scribendi fabricandiqiie omnesliltcrarum species (Venice, 15 14, book iv.). The alphabet he publishesoffers some variations upon that of Leonardo—the letter E, forinstance, is without the circle traced in the inner angle of the base, andthe other circles are sensibly different in proportion—but in spite ofthat, it is based on the masters system. But to return to the master. Studies of physio

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