. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science. e other, that his strivings after a perfec-tion almost superhumanoften led to the aban-donment of a work he hadundertaken. Whatever the date,whatever the authenticityeven, of the works wehave now enumerated, theAnmLiiciations in theLouvre and the Uffizi,the Adoration of theMagi, the S. Jerome, etc.,one fact is a new leaven,fecund but disturbing, wasat work; and this Leo-nardo alone had cast intothe ferment of Florentineculture. Thenceforth thereign of archaism was over; its conventions and its rigiditywere swept aw
. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science. e other, that his strivings after a perfec-tion almost superhumanoften led to the aban-donment of a work he hadundertaken. Whatever the date,whatever the authenticityeven, of the works wehave now enumerated, theAnmLiiciations in theLouvre and the Uffizi,the Adoration of theMagi, the S. Jerome, etc.,one fact is a new leaven,fecund but disturbing, wasat work; and this Leo-nardo alone had cast intothe ferment of Florentineculture. Thenceforth thereign of archaism was over; its conventions and its rigiditywere swept away, together with harsh contrasts of colour, thesubstitution of portraits for types, all, in fact, that implied effort andtension. Let us pause for a moment over this last defect, and leave the othersfor later consideration. Can anything equal the easy grace ofLeonardo, the apparent carelessness which overlies his profoundcalculation ? His grounds, as we say now, were as conscientiouslylaid as those of any of his predecessors or contemporaries ; but by. STUDY FOR the ADORATION OF THE MAGI (The Louvre.) Shidy for the Saint Jeromer (WINDSOR )
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