Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science (1898) (14784540735)

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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: Harold B. Lee Library

Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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portunity for the humiliation of her niece, Isabella ofAragon, the lawful Duchess of Milan, she ended by provoking a stormwhich very nearly cost her the throne. We know how Isabellas trialsat last drove her father, the King of Naples, to threaten Lodovico, andhow the latter, to save himself, induced Charles VIII. to make hisdescent upon Italy. This time, all turned out well for Beatrice andher husband ; poison, it is affirmed, rid them of Gian Galeazzo, andtheir alliance with the other Italian States relieved them of the irksomeally they had called in, the feeble and pretentious Charles VIII. Butlet us leave political history and return to our own subject, the historyof art and letters. There is no doubt that Beatrice, brought up inthe traditions of the house of Ferrara, the dynasty of all others in Italywhich best understood how to husband its resources, taught herlord to give more method to his enterprises, and to follow them upwith greater spirit. BRAMANTE (AFTER A MEDALCARADOSSO).

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OF S. SEBASTIAN, BY VINCENZO (Ihe Brera, Milan.) 114 LEONARDO DA VINCI From time to time, in 1490, in 1510, &c., the visits of Beatricessister, Isabella of Mantua, incontestably the most fascinating womanof her day, infused more life and warmth into these cold calcula-tions.^ With her passion for the beautiful and her fine intellect,Isabella was not long in singling out Leonardo da Vinci, andit was not her fault that this king of artists did not come to Mantua,and there take the place of Andrea Mantegna, then at theend of his long and glorious career. The Marchesa at leastsucceeded, by dint of many entreaties, in obtaining a few of hisworks, among others, the portrait of herself, that superb cartoon,for the discovery of which in the Louvre we are indebted to M.Charles Yriarte. A third representative of the house of Este, Cardinal Ippolito (born1470, died 1520), the brother of Beatrice and Isabella, establishedhimself in Milan in 1497, the year of Beatrices death. He was one ofthos

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