| LEONARDO DA VINCI |
Here indeed is a name to conjure with. Wizard and magician he has been called by his contemporaries and by posterity. His was the most inquiring mind of all time, for he saw mystery everywhere and delved deep to solve it. He studied the earth and the sky. He was one of the first to divine that water had once covered the entire known world. He contemplated the heavens and recorded the movements of stars. He drew plans for flying machines and war-machinery and pipe-lines and cathedrals. He open himself; he drew the likenesses of the freaks of nature wherever he found them. He drew pictures of saints and madonnas and fauns and pagan folk out of fable and legend.
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| LA BELLE FERRONNIERE |
It is surprising that Leonardo's extraordinary observations, so many of them revolutinonary in theory, did not influence his contemporaries more than history indicates. But it was only at a comparatively late date that his voluminous hand-written manuscripts were deciphered and published for an astonished world to contemplate. We can thus skip back over the centuries and examine as no kinsman of his might, the entire range of his prodigious achievement.
Works:
| THE ANNUNCIATION |
| BEATRICE D'ESTE |
| HEAD OF ST. ANNE |
| MONA LISA |
| HEAD OF THE SAVIOR |
| THE LAST SUPPER |
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