. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;. lexibility. A third, the onlyknown example of STUDY OF A HEAD. FACSIMILE OF AN ENGUAVING AFTER LEONARDO. whlch bclongS tO the same collection, TheFour Horsenîcn, is certainly from a drawing by Leonardo, thoughit is impossible to say whether the plate was actually engravedby of tlie second), the Marclicse dAdda points out that these were borrowed from a work byPiero della Francesca, Paciolis master and fellow citizen. DAdda, Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1868, vol. ii., p. 139 et seq.—Passavant, Le. Peintre-Graveur, vol. v., p. i8r.—Dela
. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;. lexibility. A third, the onlyknown example of STUDY OF A HEAD. FACSIMILE OF AN ENGUAVING AFTER LEONARDO. whlch bclongS tO the same collection, TheFour Horsenîcn, is certainly from a drawing by Leonardo, thoughit is impossible to say whether the plate was actually engravedby of tlie second), the Marclicse dAdda points out that these were borrowed from a work byPiero della Francesca, Paciolis master and fellow citizen. DAdda, Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1868, vol. ii., p. 139 et seq.—Passavant, Le. Peintre-Graveur, vol. v., p. i8r.—Delaborde, La Gravure en Italie avant Marc Antonie, p. 1S3.—A drawing in the Vallardi Collection (no. i), a woman in profile to the right, has muchin common with the two engravings. There is the same high chin, the same continuityof line in the forehead and nose, the same straight nose, the same astonished gaze. ^ Richter, pi. Ixv.—Other engravings ascribed to Leonardo are either .spurious ordoubtful. Passavant, Le Peintre-Graveur, vol. v., p. ENGRAVINGS ASCRIBED TO LEONARDO Six engravings are connected with the so-called Academy ofLeonardo. They bear the inscription Academia Leonardi Vmci inthe midst of interlaced ornaments, cunningly composed, and forminga sort of Several heads of old men, long attributed to Mantegna, seemalso to have been ex-ecuted in the studioof the great headof the Milaneseschool. ^ The equestrianstatue of FrancescoSforza, and the LastSupper represent buta small proportionof Leonardos almostmiraculous activityduring sixteen orseventeen years of ex-traordinary fecundityand strenuous have still to con-sider his work as anarchitect, an engineer,a mechanician, a natur-
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