Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; . more put forward in Duvals recent dissertation upon Leonardo : Leonardo da Vinci was the pupiland fellow-worker of Delia Torre {DalT Anatomia, folio A, 1898, p. 27). As early as1891, I demonstrated the absurdity of such a belief in the Revue des Deux Mondes.—See also De Toni, Frammenti Vinciatii, vol. i. p. 6. —Strzygowski, _/rt/;/-/w<-//, 1895, p. 167.—No work of Delia Torre seems to have been ]irinted.—Vasari says that Caroto painteda portrait by Delia Torre (ed. Milanesi, vol. v. p. 289). The Louvre possesses the bronzeba
Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; . more put forward in Duvals recent dissertation upon Leonardo : Leonardo da Vinci was the pupiland fellow-worker of Delia Torre {DalT Anatomia, folio A, 1898, p. 27). As early as1891, I demonstrated the absurdity of such a belief in the Revue des Deux Mondes.—See also De Toni, Frammenti Vinciatii, vol. i. p. 6. —Strzygowski, _/rt/;/-/w<-//, 1895, p. 167.—No work of Delia Torre seems to have been ]irinted.—Vasari says that Caroto painteda portrait by Delia Torre (ed. Milanesi, vol. v. p. 289). The Louvre possesses the bronzebas-reliefs, modelled and cast by Andrea Riccio for the tomb of Delia Torre in theChurch of San Fermo Maggiore at Verona. These reliefs deal with the teaching of DeliaTorre, etc. As for the portrait in the Ambrosiana, which passes for a work of Leonardosand is said to represent his friend, it was a very feeble performance at its best and hasbeen entirely repainted. (Rigollot, Catalogue de VŒuvre de Leonardo da Vinci, p. 78-79.) ?•kIt Ipf ». S y^Sr^.\^^ji ^?.i<^C\f^-i^ .MEASUREMENTS OF THE HUMAN HEAD. (Win-Uor Library.) 86 LEONARDO DA VINCI 1489, that is to say, when Torre was only seven years seems to have continued his researches after his returnto Florence. When he received the visit of the Cardinal dAragonin 1516, Leonardo boasted of having made dissections (haverfacta natomia) on more than a hundred subjects of all ages, somemale and some female. The Anoninio (edited by Milanesi) adds thathis studies were carried on in the hospital of Santa Maria Novella,at Florence.^ We have been told by an expert that Leonardos anatomical studieswere, unlike those of Michelangelo, directed less towards the study ofthe muscles, than to the observation of the effects produced upon ourorgans by the mind and the passions. In reproducing one of hisanatomical drawings, M. Mathias Duval points out the almost over-scrupulous care with which the master sets out to disting
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