. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;. nd S. John ; withoutdistinction of form, or poetryot expression, they are simplylaborious studies of some agedand unlovely model, somewretched mechanic whom Ver-rocchio got to pose for him.(Charles Perkins justly criticisesthe hardness of the lines, thestiffness of the style, the ab-sence of all sentiment.) Look, on the other hand, at the consum-mate youthful grace of the angel tradition assigns to Leonardo !How the lion reveals himself in the first stroke of his paw, andwith what excellent reason did Verrocchio confess himself van-quis
. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;. nd S. John ; withoutdistinction of form, or poetryot expression, they are simplylaborious studies of some agedand unlovely model, somewretched mechanic whom Ver-rocchio got to pose for him.(Charles Perkins justly criticisesthe hardness of the lines, thestiffness of the style, the ab-sence of all sentiment.) Look, on the other hand, at the consum-mate youthful grace of the angel tradition assigns to Leonardo !How the lion reveals himself in the first stroke of his paw, andwith what excellent reason did Verrocchio confess himself van-quished! It is not impossible that the background was also thework of the young beginner ; it is a fantastic landscape, not unlikethat of the Mo7ia Lisa. The brown scale of colour, too, resemblesthat which Leonardo adopted, notably in the Saint Jerome, of theVatican Gallery, in the Adoration of the Magi of the Uffizi (which,however, is only a cartoon), in the Virgin of the Rocks, and in theMona Lisa. To sum up, I will say that Leonardo never dreamt, and for. HEAU OF JOHN THE BAiTIST, FROM VEKROCCHlOb BAPTISMOK CHRIST. (Accademia, Florence.)
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