. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science. that in Tuscany Leonardo had the sculptor Rustic!for a pupil, and honoured the young Bandinelli with his counsels. i6o LEONARDO DA VINCI vivifying influence even into regions apparently inaccessible to theiraction. It appears unexpectedly in artists like Bernardino Luiniand Sodoma, who never had the good fortune to come into per-sonal contact with Leonardo. But this influence did not manifestitself everywhere with identical, or equally beneficial, results. Thoughthe Milanese sculptors recognised the supreme grace of Leonardoscreation and
. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science. that in Tuscany Leonardo had the sculptor Rustic!for a pupil, and honoured the young Bandinelli with his counsels. i6o LEONARDO DA VINCI vivifying influence even into regions apparently inaccessible to theiraction. It appears unexpectedly in artists like Bernardino Luiniand Sodoma, who never had the good fortune to come into per-sonal contact with Leonardo. But this influence did not manifestitself everywhere with identical, or equally beneficial, results. Thoughthe Milanese sculptors recognised the supreme grace of Leonardoscreation and, to a certain extent, the difficulties that he had over-come, they had no conception of the infinite amount of detailedresearch and strenuous labour that went to make up the sum of hisperfection. Hence it was that Milanese sculpture passed fromextreme ruggedness to the facility, the polish, the sentimentalinsipidity so apparent in the statues and bas-reliefs of Briosco at theCertosa of Pavia, and those of Bambaja, on the famous tomb of Gastonde STUDY FOR THE EQUESTRIAN STATUE OF FRANCESCO SFORZA. (Windsor Library. Reproduced from Dr. Richters work.)
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