Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; . za. His personal acquaintance with theartist seems, however, to have dated only from 1507, the year inwhich he again passed the Alps to take possession of revoltedGenoa. The ground had been well prepared by Charles dAmboise,whose admiration for Leonardo passed all bounds. The artist hadonly to reap what this protector had so generously sown for him. Louis XII. was considerably in advance of his subjects. Oneof Leonardos biographers, whom it gives me pleasure to quote,^ hascharacterised the entourage of the French King from the point ofvi
Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; . za. His personal acquaintance with theartist seems, however, to have dated only from 1507, the year inwhich he again passed the Alps to take possession of revoltedGenoa. The ground had been well prepared by Charles dAmboise,whose admiration for Leonardo passed all bounds. The artist hadonly to reap what this protector had so generously sown for him. Louis XII. was considerably in advance of his subjects. Oneof Leonardos biographers, whom it gives me pleasure to quote,^ hascharacterised the entourage of the French King from the point ofview of taste, with much felicity: Louis XII., he says, hadbrought with him, on his triuinj)hal journey into Italy, a painter ofParis, his chief painter and valet-de-chamhre, one Jean Peréal, whohad been already called a second Zeuxis ami a second Apelles. Louiswished him to .set down on |)anel or canvas what the chronicler J(;an1 Arsène Houssayc, Histoire de Lcotiard dc Vinci, y. 179 Wll The Virs;m 7vith the Seules. Sehool of Leonardo. (thk I;()UVHK.). SECOND SOJOURN IN MILAN 175 dAuton and the poet Jean Marot were to describe in prose and inverse. It was a trio of Jeans, a happy cHversion for the intermezziof war, if not much of a light for history. By dint of industry Jeande Paris satisfied the demands of his office. He reproduced withthe frank fidehty of his time the conquered towers and castles, andtheir sites, the voluble rivers, the capricious mountains, the undu-lating plains, the order and disorder of battle, the bloody horror ofthe dead, the misery of the wounded hovering between life antldeath, the terror of those who fled, the impetuous ardour, ,and lightheartedness of those who triumphed ! When Louis cameback to France laden with Leonardos drawings, men looked only atthe works of Jean Peréal. The official historiographer made up forthe non-arrival of the illustrious painter of the Last Shipper, andParisian vanity exalted Jean de Paris above the best art
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