The Note Books of Leonardo da Vinci..(Complete)

The Complete Note Book Of Leonardo da Vinci......


A singular fatality has ruled the destiny of nearly all the mostfamous of Leonardo da Vinci's works. Two of the three most importantwere never completed, obstacles having arisen during his life-time,which obliged him to leave them unfinished; namely the SforzaMonument and the Wall-painting of the Battle of Anghiari, while thethird--the picture of the Last Supper at Milan--has sufferedirremediable injury from decay and the repeated restorations towhich it was recklessly subjected during the XVIIth and XVIIIthcenturies. Nevertheless, no other picture of the Renaissance hasbecome so wellknown and popular through copies of every description.
Vasari says, and rightly, in his Life of Leonardo, "that he labouredmuch more by his word than in fact or by deed", and the biographerevidently had in his mind the numerous works in Manuscript whichhave been preserved to this day. To us, now, it seems almostinexplicable that these valuable and interesting original textsshould have remained so long unpublished, and indeed forgotten. Itis certain that during the XVIth and XVIIth centuries theirexceptional value was highly appreciated. This is proved not merelyby the prices which they commanded, but also by the exceptionalinterest which has been attached to the change of ownership ofmerely a few pages of Manuscript.............

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