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Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; Year: 1898. Authors: Müntz, Eugène, 1845-1902. 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/leonardodavincia01munt/leonardodavincia01munt#page/n198/mode/1up ) .About This Book: Catalog Entry ( details/leonardodavincia01munt ) .View All Images: All Images From Book .Click here to view book online ( stream/leonardodavincia01munt/leonardodavincia01munt#page/n198/mode/1up ) to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book....Text Appearing Before Image:.FRIEZE nV CARADOSSO. Church of San Satiro, Milan.) CHAPTER V Leonardos début at the court of milan—his programme—the eques-trian STATUE OF FRANCESCO SFORZA—LEONARDO AS A SCULPTOR HIS INFLUENCE ON THE SCULPTURE OF NORTHERN ITALY..Text Appearing After Image:.W EN Leonardo resolved to trv his fortunes at the court of the Sforzi, he was ah-eady known there by the famous shield acquired by Dul<e Galeazzo Maria ( + 1476). We possess a remarkable documentin the masters own hand ^ which bearsupon his opening relations with theMilanese capital, namely, the letter inwhich he offers his services to Lodovicoil Moro, at that time reg-ent of theduchy for his nephew Gian Galeazzo.This epistle can hardly be called amonument of diffidence, as the reader will presently have an oppor- This manuscript, preserved in the Ambrosian.», is written irom left to right, and not,Hke the rest of I^eonardos manuscripts, from right to left. M. Charles Ravaisson-IVIolHenlias pronounced against its authenticity {Les Ecrits de Leonard de Vinci, p. 34).—Richtcr (77/t literary Works of Leonardo da Vinci, vol. ii. pp. 34, 395—398) and Uzielli{Ricerclie, 2nd cd. vol. i. p. 85—89), on the other hand, consider it to be a genuineproduction of Leonardos. This is also m.