Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science (1898) (14784562335)

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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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at Chatsworth.^ I may add that, dif-fering altogether fromHerr Mtiller-Walde (Fig. 8), I consider the head of a young womanon green paper, in the Ufifizi, closely akin to the head of the Virgin in ^ This connection has escaped Herr Miiller-Walde, who assigns the date 1472-1473 tothe Christ Church study. (Fig. 9, pi. xliii.) We must, in view of the demonstrationin the text above, antedate it by some six or eight years. As to the laborious theorybuilt up by Signor Morelli on the Christ Church drawing, which he ascribes to hisfavourite, Bernardino dei Conti, it is overthrown at once by the mere fact that thisdrawing was a study for the Virgin of the Rocks, and that in execution it shows an absoluteidentity with other drawings by Leonardo. It is not improbable that the head of awoman in the Borghese Gallery (Miiller-Walde, Fig. 7) may also have been a study forthe picture, if indeed this drawing is really by Leonardo. ; U 1 I-A ■ ■ i / ■ J VIRGIN OF THE ROCKS (Royal Library, Turin.)

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STUDY FOR THE ANGEL IN THE VIRGIN OF THE ROCKS. (Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris.) i66 LEONARDO DA VINCI the picture. It has the same short but firmly modelled nose, the samestraight lips, the same somewhat square chin.^ We may now briefly mention the studies for the Infant Jesus. The Loavre owns three, in silver-point heightened with Chinesewhite, on that greenish paper Leonardo seems to have speciallyaffected during his first Florentine period. They are all of the Childshead, and show It In profile; he looks before him, while, In thepicture, he turns to look at his mother. Note, however, that whereasIn the first the face Is In sharp profile, in the other two the artist triesthe effect of a profil perdu (i.e., less than a full profile). Dr.RIchter (vol. I., p. 345) questions the authenticity of the principaldrawing (no, 383 in M. Reisets catalogue), which he holds to be acopy of later date. But I am unable to share his views on thispoint. Herr Mtiller-Walde, on the other hand, describes

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