. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;. STUUV OF HORSES. (Windsor TJbrarj. ) CHAPTER VI THE VIRGIN OF THE ROCKS —OTHER MADONNAS OF THE MILANESE PERIOD. T HERE is no more tantalising problemin the history of modern art than thatof the classification and chronology ofLeonardo da Vincis works. One is sometimestempted to believe that just as the mastershandwriting remained absolutely unchanged forthirty-five years, making it impossible to dis-tinguish the manuscripts of his extreme oldage from those of his first literary efforts,so, too, his manner of drawing and paintingnever va
. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;. STUUV OF HORSES. (Windsor TJbrarj. ) CHAPTER VI THE VIRGIN OF THE ROCKS —OTHER MADONNAS OF THE MILANESE PERIOD. T HERE is no more tantalising problemin the history of modern art than thatof the classification and chronology ofLeonardo da Vincis works. One is sometimestempted to believe that just as the mastershandwriting remained absolutely unchanged forthirty-five years, making it impossible to dis-tinguish the manuscripts of his extreme oldage from those of his first literary efforts,so, too, his manner of drawing and paintingnever varied an iota throughout his will not undertake to solve all the difficulties,many of them inextricable, which beset thedetermination of dates in a life-work of suchimportance as that of Leonardo. In such investigations it isimpossible to show too much reserve, scepticism, and above allmodesty, a virtue which is becoming extremely rare in the domainof artistic erudition. But I may claim to offer some materials for A FM;irŒ FOR the ADOCAIU-NOF THE MAGI. (Bonnat Collection, Paris.) 1 See M. Charles Ravaisson-Molliens A/a/iusi/i/s de Leonard de Vinci, vol.
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