. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;. aid. It is, however, impossible to confoundMontorfanos work with that of any member of the School of Padua :the types have a strongly accentuated Milanese character, with theirsomewhat square-jawed faces, and long waving hair (S. John theEvangelist). A horseman on the right suggests Luini by his boldand gallant bearing. Montorfanos work would not have aroused enthusiasm anywhere,but it was, indeed, a disaster for it to be placed opposite to that of 136 LEONARDO DA VINCI Leonardo ; and yet, like certafn vulgar natures, it enjoys rude hea
. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;. aid. It is, however, impossible to confoundMontorfanos work with that of any member of the School of Padua :the types have a strongly accentuated Milanese character, with theirsomewhat square-jawed faces, and long waving hair (S. John theEvangelist). A horseman on the right suggests Luini by his boldand gallant bearing. Montorfanos work would not have aroused enthusiasm anywhere,but it was, indeed, a disaster for it to be placed opposite to that of 136 LEONARDO DA VINCI Leonardo ; and yet, like certafn vulgar natures, it enjoys rude healthwhere the man of genius languishes and dies. The Last Supper isa ruin ; the Cnic/pxiou has preserved all its original brilliance of am far from denying that on the whole, his sojourn in Lombardyexercised a profound effect ufjon Leonardos style ; but, in the change,nature counted for much, art for little, if for anything at all. Comparedwith the Tuscan landscape, that of Upper Italy, and particularly that ml ■-Î H miT^^m^jr -•• \ f^. r. ■x;,.--: P-^V)
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