. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;. the cartoons to be designedby Ambrogio.^ We are now familiar with a respectable number of portraits fromAmbrogio Predas brush : those of the young Archinto in the Fuller- 1 The author of the Catalogue of Pictures by Masters of the Milanese and alliedSchools of Lombard) (Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1898), endeavours to compile a listof Zenales pictures, ascribing to him, among other things, the Circumcision, in the Lou\Te,dated 1491, and attributed to Bramantino. - See my Histoire de la Tapisserie en Italie, p. 45. * Motta: Archivio stori
. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;. the cartoons to be designedby Ambrogio.^ We are now familiar with a respectable number of portraits fromAmbrogio Predas brush : those of the young Archinto in the Fuller- 1 The author of the Catalogue of Pictures by Masters of the Milanese and alliedSchools of Lombard) (Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1898), endeavours to compile a listof Zenales pictures, ascribing to him, among other things, the Circumcision, in the Lou\Te,dated 1491, and attributed to Bramantino. - See my Histoire de la Tapisserie en Italie, p. 45. * Motta: Archivio storico lombardo, 1S93, p. 972-996. S 2 32 LEONARDO DA \1XCI Maitland collection in London^ (1494), of the Emperor Maximilian(1502) in the Vienna Gallery, of the Empress Bianca Maria Sforzain the Arconati-Visconti collection in Paris,- &c. These portraits arenoticeable for a smooth, occasionally dry execution akin to that ofthe miniaturist, according to Dr. Bode. Towards the close of his lifeMorelli attempted to rob Leonardo of the charming portrait of a. J OF GAIN GALEAZ/-() SFOkZA, UY V. F01-(A. (Wallace Museum, London.) young woman in the Ambrosiana in favour of this conscientious, butuninspired master ! Sensibly inferior to Ambrogio is his contemporary, Bernardinodei Conti, who worked, approximately, from 1499 to 1522. Hehas been credited, among other things, with The Fa?inly of Lately acquired fur the National Gallery.—En. - A ])en and ink sketch after two portraits, by the goldsmith and medallist,Gian Marco Cavalli, is in the Accadeniia at Venice, where it long figured under the nameof Leonardo da Vinci. See Herr v. Schneiders article in the Jaluiuich dcr , 1893, p. 187 c/ saj. See also Dr. Lodes article in \.\\(i Jahrbtich derkg. Pr. Kunstsaiinnluiigen, 18S9, ii., and that by Miss Ffoulkes in the ArcJiivio storicodell Arle, 1894, p. 250. EARLY MILANESE PAINTERS 133 Lodovico it Moro in the Brera, formerly attributed to Zenale, andthe Madon
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