Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; . es in the freedom and evi-dent capacity for move-ment of his figures, aswell as in an inde-scribable rhythm andinspiration. He wasGreek, too, in his lovefor those androgynousforms, uniting masculinevigour with femininegrace, which play solarge a part in his work,and of which the mostcomplete type is the5. John the Baptist ofthe Louvre. From all this to thetreatment of pagan sub-jects was but a step,and Leonardo took itmore than once. He painted a Medusa, a Triumph of Neptune,a Lecia, a Pomona, a Bacchus. In such of these as have survived
Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; . es in the freedom and evi-dent capacity for move-ment of his figures, aswell as in an inde-scribable rhythm andinspiration. He wasGreek, too, in his lovefor those androgynousforms, uniting masculinevigour with femininegrace, which play solarge a part in his work,and of which the mostcomplete type is the5. John the Baptist ofthe Louvre. From all this to thetreatment of pagan sub-jects was but a step,and Leonardo took itmore than once. He painted a Medusa, a Triumph of Neptune,a Lecia, a Pomona, a Bacchus. In such of these as have survivedthe conception is in every way satisfactory, being equally removedfrom the archaeological pedantrydear to some artists of the time,and from the anachronisms ofothers. Leonardo, however, was curi-ously forgetful of fitness and his-torical colour when he set out, ina sketch of the Deluge, to intro-duce Neptune with his trident and yEolus with his bag of winds ! To represent the infernal regionshe recommended that in the Paradise of Pluto should be placed. FIGURE IN ANTIQUE DRAPERY. (fROM DR. RICHTERs WORK.) (Windsor Library.)
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