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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/n234/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/n234/mode/1up ) to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book....Text Appearing Before Image:.S1L;U\ 1 UK riih AN».IX IN I lit \ Hit.IN <K lllli KÛLKs. (koyal Library, Turin.)..Text Appearing After Image:.STUDY FOR THE AXCEL IN THE VIRGIN OF THE KOCKS. (École des Beaux Arts, Paris.) 166 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 Louvre owns three, in silver-point heightened with Chinesewhite, on that greenish paper Leonardo .seems to have speciallyafifected 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 tlie 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 Miiller-Walde, on the other hand, descri.