Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; (1898) (14786314173)

Identifier: leonardodavincia01munt (find matches)
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: University of California Libraries
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he general arrangement seems to me too soft and facile.The predominance of the rich architectural background, again, anunprecedented feature in any authenticated work of Leonardos, is nota reassuring detail. Note the colonnades, the domes, the arches, thegalleries, the pseudo-classic palaces, etc. Discord, a spirited femalefigure, striding along, brandishes a long stick behind her, after the Revue de rArt andeii et moderne, 1897, vol. ii., p. 421 et seq., 189S, vol. i., p. 74.The horse has been restored by M. Fréniiet. (See Charles Blanc, Collection dObjetsdArt de AL Thiers, léguée au Musée du Louvre, Paris, 1884, p. 22.) - Trattato délia Pittura, chap. 38. Cf. chaps. 35, 36. 8 Courajod, Conjectures à propos dun Buste en Marbre de Beatrix dEste au ALusée duLouvre, Paris, 1877, Gazette des Beaux-Arts. * Venturi, Archivio storico delP Arte, iSgo. * See the article in the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, February, 1S97. Btisi of Scipio. Sc/ioo/ of Leonardo. (». IAiM. katiikks collection.)
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SCULPTURE ASCRIBED TO LEONARDO 159 fashion of a Parthian dart. This figure recalls the types of the school ofFontainebleau, rather than those of Leonardo. Strange to say, the composition, which contains passages of greatfreedom—a series of torsoes not unworthy of Michelangelo—aboundsin faulty foreshortenings. All the figures in the foreground, runningor seated, are very much too short.^ All the information we have as to other sculptures by Leonardo ismore or less open to question. Among the works ascribed to him are : The Infant Jesus blessingthe little S. John, a terra-cotta, formerly the property of CardinalFederigo Borromeo ; and a S. Jerome, in high relief, formerly in theHugford collection at Florence.^ According to Rio,* Leonardo even worked in ivory ! M. Thiers,remarks this uncritical writer, owns a little ivory figure of exquisiteworkmanship, which can hardly be attributed to any one butLeonardo. It is enough to reproduce such an assertion to show itsinanity ! Needless to