. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science. e cartoons to be designedby Ambrogio,^ We are now familiar with a respectable number of portraits fromAmbrogio Predas brush : those of the young Archinto in the Fuller- ^ The author of the Catalogue of Pictures by Masters of the Milanese and alliedSchools of Lombardy (BurUngton Fine Arts Club, 1898), endeavours to compile a listof Zenales pictures, ascribing to him, among other things, the Circumcision, in the Louvre,dated 1491, and attributed to Bramantino. 2 See my Histoire de la Tapisserie en Italic, p. 45. ^ Motta: Archivio storico l
. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science. e cartoons to be designedby Ambrogio,^ We are now familiar with a respectable number of portraits fromAmbrogio Predas brush : those of the young Archinto in the Fuller- ^ The author of the Catalogue of Pictures by Masters of the Milanese and alliedSchools of Lombardy (BurUngton Fine Arts Club, 1898), endeavours to compile a listof Zenales pictures, ascribing to him, among other things, the Circumcision, in the Louvre,dated 1491, and attributed to Bramantino. 2 See my Histoire de la Tapisserie en Italic, p. 45. ^ Motta: Archivio storico loinbardo, 1893, p. 972-996. S 2 [32 LEONARDO DA VINCI Maitland collection In London ^ (1494), of the Emperor Maximilian(1502) in the Vienna Gallery, of the Empress Bianca Maria Sforzain the Arconati-Visconti collection in Paris,^ &c. These portraits arenoticeable for a smooth, occasionally dry execution akin to that ofthe miniaturist, according to Dr. Bode. Towards the close of his lifeMorelli attempted to rob Leonardo of the charming portrait of a. PORTRAIT OF GAIN GALEAZZO SFORZA, BY V. FOPPA. (Wallace Museum, London.) young woman in the Ambrosiana in favour of this conscientious, butuninspired master ! Sensibly inferior to Ambrogio is his contemporary, Bernardinodel Conti, who worked, approximately, from 1499 to 1522. Hehas been credited, among other things, with The Family of 1 Lately acquired for the National Gallery.—Ed. 2 A pen and ink sketch after these two portraits, by the goldsmith and medallist,Gian Marco Cavalli, is in the Accademia at Venice, where it long figured under the nameof Leonardo da Vinci. See Herr v. Schneiders article in the Jahrbuch der , 1893, p. 187 et seq. See also Dr. Bodes article in \h& Jahrbuch derkg. Pr. Kunstsamvihmgen, 1889, ii-> and that by Miss Ffoulkes in the Archivio storicodeir Arte, 1894, p. 250. EARLY MILANESE PAINTERS 133 Lodovico il Moro in the Brera, formerly attributed to Zenale, andthe Madonna Litta in th
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