A history of painting . come near it. He had ever thequick retort to an accusation, The man of genius worksmost when his hands are idle. The fourteen-hundreds came to an end in a sea ofcynicism and doubt—mens eyes bent on material his back to it all, Leonardo stands out, seekingto solve the infinite. He detested convention—the estab-lished and completed thing. In his Last Supper he flingsaside the timidities, flings away the halos of the apostles ;takes instead a dramatic moment—the moment whenChrist announces, One of you shall betray me ; makesit dramatic ; makes each apostle a
A history of painting . come near it. He had ever thequick retort to an accusation, The man of genius worksmost when his hands are idle. The fourteen-hundreds came to an end in a sea ofcynicism and doubt—mens eyes bent on material his back to it all, Leonardo stands out, seekingto solve the infinite. He detested convention—the estab-lished and completed thing. In his Last Supper he flingsaside the timidities, flings away the halos of the apostles ;takes instead a dramatic moment—the moment whenChrist announces, One of you shall betray me ; makesit dramatic ; makes each apostle a human character ; and,in the doing, for the first time in Italian art, creates abeautiful head of the Christ. Miserable men, wrote Leonardo, how often do youenslave yourselves to gain money. He put will andfreedom of the individual above all things. 158 XXI L U I N I1475 -?-i532 THE MYSTIC MARRIAGE OF ST. CATHERINE In the Brera (Milan) The Child Christ may be seen placing the ring upon the finger of CHAPTER XX WHEREIN WE SEE THE MIGHTY GENIUS OF LEONARDODA VINCI CREATE THE SCHOOL OF MILAN Leaving all that was mortal of the dead Leonardo da Vinci WHEREINin France, to return to the Florence that bred him, it were WE SEEwell to stay our feet at Milan on the southward journeying, THEand gaze on the large endeavour that essayed to create the MIGHTY art of what is known as the Milanese School, under the GENIUS OF e t a *u c u * c .u LEONARDO magic sway or Leonardo, therefore but a part of the vimpt achievement of Florence. CRFATF Leonardo was a very Florentine, created by the spirit of the Florence, the consummation of her genius in the fourteen- SCHOOL hundreds. Yet he created the greater part of his art, OF MILAN realised the fulness of his genius, outside Florence ; and it was in Milan that he came to his supreme fulfilment. Over Milan he cast all the glamour of his renown. His colossal personality dominated Milan, and was to cast its atmosphere over Florence,
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