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Title: Leonardo da Vinci

Author: Maurice W. Brockwell

Release Date: March, 2005 [EBook #7785]
Posting Date: August 7, 2009

Language: English

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[Illustration: Plate 1--MONA LISA. Frontispiece

In the Louvre. No. 1601. 2 ft 6 1/2 ins. By 1 ft. 9 ins. (0.77 x 0.53)]

LEONARDO DA VINCI

By MAURICE W. BROCKWELL

Illustrated With Eight Reproductions in Colour

[Illustration]

"Leonardo," wrote an English critic as far back as 1721, "was a Man
so happy in his genius, so consummate in his Profession, so
accomplished in the Arts, so knowing in the Sciences, and withal, so
much esteemed by the Age wherein he lived, his Works so highly
applauded by the Ages which have succeeded, and his Name and Memory
still preserved with so much Veneration by the present Age--that, if
anything could equal the Merit of the Man, it must be the Success he
met with. Moreover, 'tis not in Painting alone, but in Philosophy,
too, that Leonardo surpassed all his Brethren of the 'Pencil.'"

This admirable summary of the great Florentine painter's life's work
still holds good to-day.

CONTENTS

His Birth
His Early Training
His Early Works
First Visit to Milan
In the East
Back in Milan
The Virgin of the Rocks
The Last Supper
The Court of Milan
Leonardo Leaves Milan
Mona Lisa
Battle of Anghiari
Again in Milan
In Rome
In France
His Death
His Art
His Mind
His Maxims
His Spell
His Descendants

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Plate
I. Mona Lisa
In the Louvre
II. Annunciation
In the Uffizi Gallery, Florence
III. Virgin of the Rocks
In the National Gallery, London
IV. The Last Supper
In the Refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
V. Copy of the Last Supper
In the Diploma Gallery, Burlington House
VI. Head of Christ
In the Brera Gallery, Milan
VII. Portrait (presumed) of Lucrezia Crivelli
In the Louvre
VIII. Madonna, Infant Christ, and St Anne.
In the Louvre

HIS BIRTH