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Leonardo's early life was spent in Florence, his maturity in Milan, and the last three years of his life in France. Leonardo's teacher was Verrocchio. First he was a goldsmith, then a painter and sculptor: as a painter, representative of the very scientific school of draughtsmanship; more famous as a sculptor, being the creator of the Colleoni statue at Venice, Leonardo was a man of striking physical attractiveness, great charm of manner and conversation, and mental accomplishment. He was well grounded in the sciences and mathematics of the day, as well as a gifted musician. His skill in draughtsmanship was extraordinary; shown by his numerous drawings as well as by his comparatively few paintings. His skill of hand is at the service of most minute observation and analytical research into the character and structure of form. Leonardo is the first in date of the great men who had the desire to create in a picture a kind of mystic unity brought about by the fusion of matter and spirit. Now that the Primitives had concluded their experiments, ceaselessly pursued during two centuries, by the conquest of the methods of painting, he was able to pronounce the words which served as a password to all later artists worthy of the name: painting is a spiritual thing, cosa mentale. He completed Florentine draughtsmanship in applying to modelling by light and shade, a sharp subtlety which his predecessors had used only to give greater precision to their contours. This marvellous draughtsmanship, this modelling and chiaroscuro he used not solely to paint the exterior appearance of the body but, as no one before him had done, to cast over it a reflection of the mystery of the inner life. In the Mona Lisa and his other masterpieces he even used landscape not merely as a more or less picturesque decoration, but as a sort of echo of that interior life and an element of a perfect harmony. Relying on the still quite novel laws of perspective this doctor of scholastic wisdom, who was at the same time an initiator of modern thought, substituted for the discursive manner of the Primitives the principle of concentration which is the basis of classical art. The picture is no longer presented to us as an almost fortuitous aggregate of details and episodes. It is an organism in which all the elements, lines and colours, shadows and lights, compose a subtle tracery converging on a spiritual, a sensuous centre. It was not with the external significance of objects, but with their inward and spiritual significance, that Leonardo was occupied.
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1Leonardo Leonardo da Vinci da Vinci
2permission of the copyright holder, throughout the world. Unless
3Mirator veterum discipulusque memor
4Defuit una mihi symmetria prisca, peregi
5Leonardo’s proscription of the costume of his own
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6LEONARDO’S DEALINGS WITH THE ANTIQUE
7Museo Pio Clementino, Vatican.
8LEONARDO’S DEALINGS WITH THE ANTIQUE
9medallions of the time of the Antonines, notably those of Lucius Verus.
10Museo Pio Clementino, Vatican.
11on the left.
12THE POET, THE THINKER AND THE MAN OF SCIENCE
13“Léonard, ce frère Italien de Faust.” – MICHELET
14of such a man.
15foundation.
16understood by the rest of Italy.
17Si abebis, non tamen cito.
18“sadisfatione, intento, origine, ondamento, cierchare, trovare, intendere”.
19Dragon, c. 1480.
20Killing the Dragon, 1516.
21San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice.
22Se’l Petrarca amò si forte il laurc
23Fu perch’ egli è bon fralla salsicia e tonno.
24THE POET, THE THINKER AND THE MAN OF SCIENCE
25intellect.
26Musée du Louvre, Paris.
27THE POET, THE THINKER AND THE MAN OF SCIENCE
28British Museum, London.
29scope and power.
30Pen and ink, 20.6 x 28.3 cm.
31truth” (lascio star le lettere incoronate, perche sono sommo verità).
32mountain in the world.
33THE POET, THE THINKER AND THE MAN OF SCIENCE
34Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence.
35THE POET, THE THINKER AND THE MAN OF SCIENCE
36134 x 96 cm. Museo Nazionale
37THE POET, THE THINKER AND THE MAN OF SCIENCE
38Arab interpreters. In the seventeenth century these leaders still
39Palazzo Pitti, Florence.
40Pen and ink, wash, 28 x 40 cm.
41of Epicurus.
42arrive last at the fair.
43Here, as in other cases, the contradiction between the
44THE POET, THE THINKER AND THE MAN OF SCIENCE
45especially of alchemy.
46Holy Inquisition.
47Royal Library, Windsor Castle.
48“Reality, with its cold definitions, its vague and unexplored
49Galleria dell’Accademia, Venice.
50THE POET, THE THINKER AND THE MAN OF SCIENCE
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