. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science. tTION (ATIKlIiUTED TO LEONARDO). (The Louvre.) CHAPTER II FIRST ORIGINAL PRODUCTIONS : THE SHIELD—THE MEDUSA—THE FALL—PICTURESASCRIBED TO LEONARDO—THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE LOUVRE AND THE ANNUN-CIATION OF THE UFFIZI—THE PORTRAIT OF BANDINI A T the beginning of Leonardos career,as in that of every great artist,we meet with the legend of a firstmasterpiece. A farmer, so the story runs, had asked Ser Piero da Vinci to get a shieldhe had made out of the wood of a fig-treeon his property decorated in Florence. SerPiero charged his
. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science. tTION (ATIKlIiUTED TO LEONARDO). (The Louvre.) CHAPTER II FIRST ORIGINAL PRODUCTIONS : THE SHIELD—THE MEDUSA—THE FALL—PICTURESASCRIBED TO LEONARDO—THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE LOUVRE AND THE ANNUN-CIATION OF THE UFFIZI—THE PORTRAIT OF BANDINI A T the beginning of Leonardos career,as in that of every great artist,we meet with the legend of a firstmasterpiece. A farmer, so the story runs, had asked Ser Piero da Vinci to get a shieldhe had made out of the wood of a fig-treeon his property decorated in Florence. SerPiero charged his son to paint something onit, but without telling him where it camefrom. Perceiving that the shield was warpedand very roughly cut, Leonardo straightenedit out by heat, and sent it to a turnerto plane and polish. After giving it a coat-ing of plaster, and arranging it to his satis-faction, he bethought him of a subject suitable for painting uponit—something that should be of a nature to strike terror to anywho might attack the owner of this piece of armour, after themanner of the Gorgon of old. To this end he collected in aplace, to which he alone had access, a number of crickets, grass-hoppers, bats, serpents, lizards, and other strange creatures ; byniingling these together he evolved a most hor
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