. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science. FIKST IDEA FOR THE LAST SUlPEK.(Windsor Library.) CHAPTER VI THE LAST SUPPER. I IDEA FOK LAST SUrPtK (Tire Louvre ) N the present chapterI propose to showhow the painter ofthe Moiia Lisa, the Virginof the Rocks, and the SaintAnne developed, by whatteachings of his predeces-sors he profited, throughwhat intimate vicissitudeshis ideas passed before cul-minating in the immortalpage of Santa Maria delleGrazie. For in this, needless to say, we have no abstract andartificial work, born of the caprice of an artists imagination, but apage from t
. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science. FIKST IDEA FOR THE LAST SUlPEK.(Windsor Library.) CHAPTER VI THE LAST SUPPER. I IDEA FOK LAST SUrPtK (Tire Louvre ) N the present chapterI propose to showhow the painter ofthe Moiia Lisa, the Virginof the Rocks, and the SaintAnne developed, by whatteachings of his predeces-sors he profited, throughwhat intimate vicissitudeshis ideas passed before cul-minating in the immortalpage of Santa Maria delleGrazie. For in this, needless to say, we have no abstract andartificial work, born of the caprice of an artists imagination, but apage from the book of life itself, a story that has been seen and felt,a drama that has been acted. I devote myself to the processus,congratulating myself on the fact that my predecessors have confinedthemselves to the collection of materials, and that I have thepleasure of offering my readers an attempt at a co-ordination ofthese materials, which, whatever its merit, will at least be novel. Before entering on this analysis I would say a few words as to theoriginality of the great picture, and its destination. 178 LEONARDO DA VINCI The wor
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