Image from page 198 of "Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;" (1898)

Identifier: leonardodavincia02mn.Title: Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidleonardodavincia02mn ) .Year: 1898 ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1898 ) (1890s ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1890 ) ).Authors: Müntz, Eugène, 1845-1902 ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorM__ntz__Eug__ne__1845_1902 ) .Subjects: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectLeonardo__da_Vinci__1452_1519 ) .Publisher: London : W. Heinemann ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherLondon___W__Heinemann ) New York, C. Scribner's sons ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisher_New_York__C__Scribner_s_sons ) .Contributing Library: University of California Libraries ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorUniversity_of_California_Libraries ) .Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorInternet_Archive ) ...View Book Page: Book Viewer ( stream/leonardodavincia02mn/leonardodavincia02mn#page/n198/mode/1up ) .About This Book: Catalog Entry ( details/leonardodavincia02mn ) .View All Images: All Images From Book ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidleonardodavincia02mn ) ..Click here to view book online ( stream/leonardodavincia02mn/leonardodavincia02mn#page/n198/mode/1up ) to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book....Text Appearing Before Image:.t they took the bridge,and got as far as the tents.But Simonetto, with sixhundred cavalry, fell onthe enemy, drove them out of the position again, and recoveredthe bridge. After him came up more troops, and 2,000 horsemen.Thus for a long time the struggle went on with changing results.At last the Patriarch, to carry confusion into the enemys ranks,sent Niccolo da Pisa, etc. This description is worth mentioning, but not worth quoting in itsentirety, for none of the episodes he refers to found favour inLeonardos eyes, while, on the other hand, that which he portrayed,the capture of the standard, is passed over in silence. Machiavelli, less prolix and more incisive, has left a verycharacteristic account of the struggle to which the patriotism of hisfellow-citizens had given undue importance. He declares that onlyone man lost his life in the battle, and that he was trampled underthe horses feet ! On the other hantl, and this fact is an exceedingly curious one, THE BATTLE OF ANOHIARI ■45..Text Appearing After Image:.Leonardo has left us a manuscript account of a battle as he conceivedit, and this description is the very opposite of his rendering of the Battleof Anghiari.^ First of all, says Leonardo, the smoke of theartillery must be rendered, mingled in the air with the dust thrown upby the cavalry and the combatants. (Here follows a long dissertationon the mixture of these impalpable substances.) The air must seemfull of streaks of fire like lightning flashes ; some of these flashescaused by the burning gunpowder must run upwards, some must falldownwards, some must fly horizontally, and the bullets from the fire-arms must leave a trailof smoke behind them.You must show thevictors running, withwild hair tossed, liketheir draperies, by thewind, with wrinkledfaces, and swollen knittedbrows. Their limbs mustwork in contrast, that isto say, if the right footis in front, the left arm must be the foremost of the two, and if you represent a fallen man,attention must be drawn to him by the marks on the.