. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;. HEAU OF JOHN THE BAiTIST, FROM VEKROCCHlOb BAPTISMOK CHRIST. (Accademia, Florence.). STATUE OF COLLEONE, BY VERROCCHIO. (THE BASE BY LEOPARDI.) (Piazza di SS. Giovanni e Paolo ai Venice.) COLLABORATION OF LEONARDO AND VERROCCHIO 43 excellent reason, of looking to Verrocchio for ready-made formuléelike those by which Raphael profited so long in Peruginos was rather he who opened up to his astonished master unsus-pected sources of beauty, which the latter scarcely had time to turnto account.^ Several German critics have gone so
. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;. HEAU OF JOHN THE BAiTIST, FROM VEKROCCHlOb BAPTISMOK CHRIST. (Accademia, Florence.). STATUE OF COLLEONE, BY VERROCCHIO. (THE BASE BY LEOPARDI.) (Piazza di SS. Giovanni e Paolo ai Venice.) COLLABORATION OF LEONARDO AND VERROCCHIO 43 excellent reason, of looking to Verrocchio for ready-made formuléelike those by which Raphael profited so long in Peruginos was rather he who opened up to his astonished master unsus-pected sources of beauty, which the latter scarcely had time to turnto account.^ Several German critics have gone so far as to determineLeonardos share in his masters pictures to the minutest my own part, I make no pretensions to such powers ofdivination, and am content to draw my conclusions from factsthat are obvious to all open and impartial minds. Signor Morelli,indeed, maintains that the Bapiisnt of Christ is entirely by Verroc-chios Who shall decide in this conflict of opinions ? The reader mustforgive me if I respect a tradition that agrees so well with thetestimony of the work itself, and continue to believe in the collabor
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