The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . 53 adhered to by theFratre in all hissubsequent works (Illustration 54). Raphael, withthat power of assimilation which distinguishes himamong men of genius, learned from Fra Bartolomeothis method of disposing figures and combining themin masses with almost mathematical precision. Itwould have been indeed surprising if Leonardo daVinci, in whom the artist and the man of sciencewere so wonderfully united, had not been greatlypreoccupied with the mathematics of the art of paint-ing. His Madonna of the Rocks, and Virgin on the 6
The beautiful necessity; seven essays on theosophy and architecture . 53 adhered to by theFratre in all hissubsequent works (Illustration 54). Raphael, withthat power of assimilation which distinguishes himamong men of genius, learned from Fra Bartolomeothis method of disposing figures and combining themin masses with almost mathematical precision. Itwould have been indeed surprising if Leonardo daVinci, in whom the artist and the man of sciencewere so wonderfully united, had not been greatlypreoccupied with the mathematics of the art of paint-ing. His Madonna of the Rocks, and Virgin on the 62 THE BEAUTIFUL NECESSITY Lap of Saint Anne, in the Louvre, exhibitthe very perfection of pyramidal is, however, in his masterpiece, The LastSupper, that he combines geometrical sym-metry and precision with perfect naturalnessand freedom in the grouping of individuallyinteresting and dramatic figures. MichaelAngelo, Andrea del Sarto, and the greatVenetians, in whose work the art of paintingmay be said to have culminated, recognizedand obeyed those ma
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