Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; . STUDY FOn THE MADONNA DEL GATTO. (Windsor Library.) Sant Eustorgio, at Milan, possesses a picture, certainly a 5. John the Baptist, identical in every respect with that in tlie Louvre, save for the crown of vine leaves. The same saint again is represented in the picture from the Penther Collection (sold at Vienna in December 1887), which is a textual reproduction of the Louvre The thyrsus must have usurped the place of the reed cross. On the other hand, Leonardos contemporary, F. A. Giraldi, celebrated the painters Bacchus in t
Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; . STUDY FOn THE MADONNA DEL GATTO. (Windsor Library.) Sant Eustorgio, at Milan, possesses a picture, certainly a 5. John the Baptist, identical in every respect with that in tlie Louvre, save for the crown of vine leaves. The same saint again is represented in the picture from the Penther Collection (sold at Vienna in December 1887), which is a textual reproduction of the Louvre The thyrsus must have usurped the place of the reed cross. On the other hand, Leonardos contemporary, F. A. Giraldi, celebrated the painters Bacchus in the following distich, published by the Marquis Campori :— B.\ccHUS Leonardi Vincu :Tcr geminum postliac, mortales, crédite BacchumMe ])e])erit docta Vincius illc manu. The Louvre picture is remarkable for its comparatively high Vzs,%7iMZX\\., Rapliael dUrliin, vol. ii., y. 252-253. [Jiaroccio also painted a J/(7(/irw;Mdel Gattn. Ed.] ^ A. Gruyer, Le Saton Carri\ p. 36. XVI II The Ho/y FiiDiily. (im-: IIKK-Mi I. inted by Gèny-Groa Panis ( Frati THE BACCHUS IN THE LOUVRE 185
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