. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science. THE PROPORTIONS OF THE HUMANHEAD, DRAWN BY LEONARDO FORPACIOLIS TREATISE. THE SO-CALLED CARICATURES 253. SKETCH FROM THEtRATTATO PELLAPITTUKA. (Vatican Library.) types. The old man with a bull-dogs face, the old woman with abirds head, are in his view reflections from an inferior species ; hegoes so far as to seek in the human countenance for analogieswith web-footed animals and even crustaceans. A step farther, andwe should have been tempted to talk ofevolution, and to compare him with Darwin.^Modern writers have judged this partof Leon
. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science. THE PROPORTIONS OF THE HUMANHEAD, DRAWN BY LEONARDO FORPACIOLIS TREATISE. THE SO-CALLED CARICATURES 253. SKETCH FROM THEtRATTATO PELLAPITTUKA. (Vatican Library.) types. The old man with a bull-dogs face, the old woman with abirds head, are in his view reflections from an inferior species ; hegoes so far as to seek in the human countenance for analogieswith web-footed animals and even crustaceans. A step farther, andwe should have been tempted to talk ofevolution, and to compare him with Darwin.^Modern writers have judged this partof Leonardos work with great severity. We can hardly say that he has evenskimmed the surface of the subject, saysone.^ Another formally condemns one ofthe laws laid down in the Trattato. Thefollowing passage, he declares, showshow empty and false were the ideas of Leonardo on the difference which exists between the laughingand the weeping countenance: he who sheds tears unites the eyebrowsat their junction, knits them closely, forms wrinkles above them,and drops the corners of the mouth ; on the other hand, he wholaughs lifts them [the corners of the mouth] and
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