. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science. The typehere has more distinc-tion, and the handling-more flexibility. A third, the only known example of which belongs to the same collection, The Four Horsemen, is certainly from a drawing by Leonardo, though it is impossible to say whether the plate was actually engraved by of the second), the Marchese dAdda points out that these were borrowed from a work byPiero della Francesca, Paciohs master and fellow citizen. ^ DAdda, Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1868, vol. ii., p. 139 et seq.—Passavant, Le Peiiitre-Graveur, vol. v., p. 181.—Del
. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science. The typehere has more distinc-tion, and the handling-more flexibility. A third, the only known example of which belongs to the same collection, The Four Horsemen, is certainly from a drawing by Leonardo, though it is impossible to say whether the plate was actually engraved by of the second), the Marchese dAdda points out that these were borrowed from a work byPiero della Francesca, Paciohs master and fellow citizen. ^ DAdda, Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1868, vol. ii., p. 139 et seq.—Passavant, Le Peiiitre-Graveur, vol. v., p. 181.—Delaborde, La Gravure en Italie avant Marc Antonie, p. 183.—A drawing in the Vallardi Collection (no. i), a woman in profile to the right, has muchm common with the two engravings. There is the same high chin, the same continuityof line m 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 Pehitre-Graveur, vol. v., p. ENGRAVING AFTER LEONARL ENGRAVINGS ASCRIBED TO LEONARDO i Six engravings are connected with the so-called Academy ofLeonardo. They bear the inscription Academia Leonardi Vinci inthe midst of interlaced ornaments, cunningly composed, and forminga sort of labyrinth.^ Several heads of old men, long attributed to Mantegna, seem also to have been ex-ecuted in the studioof the great headof the Milaneseschool. 1 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-ahst, a philosopher, andfinally, his labours as ahis name. The Sforza monument, unfinished though it was, had immediatelygiven Leonardo a place in the front rank of sculptors, just as the LastSupper had raised him to the highest place among
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