Leonardo Da Vinci And His Works Consisting of a Life of Leonardo Da Vinci
Leonardo Da Vinci And His Works Consisting of a Life of Leonardo Da Vinci
Mary Margaret Keymer Heaton
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As usual, the matter is in doubt, and all that can be done is to reconcile the silence of his earliest biographers with the impro- bability that he who tried everything should have left untried an art so likely to have tempted his fancy. If he did, the evidence dwindles, wnth even more than the usual minuteness, to a single engraving — a female head — of which an unique im- pression exists in the British Museum. The features certainly bear much resemblance to those of Mona Lisa ; and most criti...cs will feel inclined to adhere to the opinion of the Marquis Girolamo d' Adda, as published in the ''Gazette des Beaux- Arts, " vol. XXV. " All tends to assure us, " says M. D' Adda, " that we have 176 LEONARDO DA VINCI before our eyes a true production of Leonardo, even the evident inexperience in the handUng of the burin, the marks of which escape in places beyond the Hne of tracery. The firmness of the contours, the costume, the head-dress, and, above all, the forcible expression of the physiognomy, betray the handiwork of a master.
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