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Title: Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Müntz, Eugène, 1845-1902
Subjects: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519
Publisher: London : W. Heinemann New York, C. Scribner's sons
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ed his last is still in existence, with itsraftered ceiling, its huge hearth, and its general aspect of austerity. The aged and illustrious painter described his residence as apalace. June 24, S. Johns Day, (a feast dear to every Florentineheart!) 1518, at Amboise, nel palazzo del CUi. (sic) is the entryin his own hand in one of his note books (Richter, vol. ii. p. 417). been occasionally attributed to Leonardo (a Visitation, a Virgin and C/ii/d, an Assumption).Arsène Iloussaye fancied he recognised through the repaints in the head of a Madonna,an angels head by Meizi, or some Milanese artist. The Martjuis de Laborde, how-ever, considers that^ none of these works bear the slightest resemblance to Leonardosmanner, and even believes them to belong to a period much earlier than that of jiisresidence at Amboise. (La Renaissance des Arts à la Cour de France, vol. i., (). 196.)I Jicunions des Sociétés des Beaux Arts des Départements, 1893, p. 784. Saint John the Baptist. (thr i.oivkr.)
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Printed by Dcjeqcr, Pa LEONARDO AT AMROISE 211 He was in the immediate vicinity of the- Court, and U:\v greatpersonages passed through Amhoise without paying him a visit. On October 10, 1516, tlie Cardinal of Aragon, natural son ofFerdinand I., King of Naples, visited Leonardo, attended by his suite.His secretary, Antonio di Beatis of Amalfi (all honour to him !),carefully noted down the details of this interview. He tells usthat the master showed the prelate three pictures : a female portrait,ordered from him by the late Giuliano dc Medici, a .V. /o/ni IhcBaptist as a Youth, and a Madonna zvith tliC Child on. the Lap ofS. Anne, all three of them very perfect. Unfortunately, adds thenarrator, a sort of paralysis which has affected his right hand,forbids our expecting more good work from him. It is true that hehas formed a Milanese pupil of his, who works exceedingly well ; andalthough the said master, Leonardo, cannot paint with the delicacywhich was customary with him, he still busie

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