. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science. HEAD OF AN OLD MAN CROWNED WITH LAUREL. (Windsor Library.) 234 LEONARDO DA VINCI. SKETCH IN THE TRATTATO DELLAPITTURA. (Vatican Library.) These transcendental considerations are followed up by com-parisons between painting and music, painting and sculpture. The more or less idle question, whether painting was superior tosculpture, or vice versa, was passionatelydiscussed all through the Renaissance. Halff -^y/^y^ .1.^^^^ a century, at least, before Leonardo, Leone —yf^^ i V\Lt>w-^ Battista Alberti had pronounced in favour ofpainting.^
. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science. HEAD OF AN OLD MAN CROWNED WITH LAUREL. (Windsor Library.) 234 LEONARDO DA VINCI. SKETCH IN THE TRATTATO DELLAPITTURA. (Vatican Library.) These transcendental considerations are followed up by com-parisons between painting and music, painting and sculpture. The more or less idle question, whether painting was superior tosculpture, or vice versa, was passionatelydiscussed all through the Renaissance. Halff -^y/^y^ .1.^^^^ a century, at least, before Leonardo, Leone —yf^^ i V\Lt>w-^ Battista Alberti had pronounced in favour ofpainting.^ Leonardo accords the palm to the same art. Sculpture, he says, is not a science, but amechanical art, if there is one, for it makesthe sculptor sweat, and gives him bodilyfatigue. The only difference I find betweenpainting and sculpture is this: the sculptorcarries out his works with more bodily fatigue than the painter, thepainter with more mental fatigue than the sculptor (cap. 35, 36). About the same time, perhaps, as Leonardo, Baldassare Castiglionearrived at a similar conclusion in his Cortegiano. A decade or two later, in 1
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