LEONARDO DA VINCI BY MAURICE W. BROCKWELL 8 COLOR ILLUS

rare THIS IS AN OLD BOOK FROM 1908 TITLED LEONARDO DA VINCI BY MAURICE W. BROCKWELL ILLUSTRATED WITH EIGHT REPRODUCTIONS IN COULOUR PUBLISHED BY T.C.& E.E. JAC LONDON & FREDERICK A. STOKES NEW YORK . IT IS IN ENGLISH WITH LARGE LETTERS. THE COVER IS LEATHER THAT FEELS LIKE SUED WITH THE WORD DAVINCI EMBOSSED IN GOLD LETTERS WITH A FLORAL DESIGN ALSO EMBOSSED. SOMEONE HAS COVERED THE BOOK A LONG TIME AGO WITH WAX PAPER. IT HAS COME LOOSE FROMITS BINDING BUT THE PAGES ARE ALL INTACT. 5" X 7" WITH 80 PAGES.

[Illustration: Plate 1-MONA LISA. Frontispiece

In the Louvre. No. 1601. 2 ft 6 1 ins. By 1 ft. 9 ins. (0.77 x 0.53)]



LEONARDO DA VINCI



By MAURICE W. BROCKWELL



Illustrated With Eight Reproductions in Colour

[Illustration]


"Leonardo," wrote an English critic as far back as 1721, "was a Man
so happy in his genius, so consummate in his Profession, so
accomplished in the Arts, so knowing in the Sciences, and withal, so
much esteemed by the Age wherein he lived, his Works so highly
applauded by the Ages which have succeeded, and his Name and Memory
still preserved with so much Veneration by the present Age--that, if
anything could equal the Merit of the Man, it must be the Success he
met with. Moreover, 'tis not in Painting alone, but in Philosophy,
too, that Leonardo surpassed all his Brethren of the 'Pencil.'"

This admirable summary of the great Florentine painter's life's work
still holds good to-day.




CONTENTS

His Birth
His Early Training
His Early Works
First Visit to Milan
In the East
Back in Milan
The Virgin of the Rocks
The Last Supper
The Court of Milan
Leonardo Leaves Milan
Mona Lisa
Battle of Anghiari
Again in Milan
In Rome
In France
His Death
His Art
His Mind
His Maxims
His Spell
His Descendants




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Plate
I. Mona Lisa
  In the Louvre
II. Annunciation
  In the Uffizi Gallery, Florence
III. Virgin of the Rocks
  In the National Gallery, London
IV. The Last Supper
  In the Refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan
V. Copy of the Last Supper
  In the Diploma Gallery, Burlington House
VI. Head of Christ
  In the Brera Gallery, Milan
VII. Portrait (presumed) of Lucrezia Crivelli
  In the Louvre
VIII. Madonna, Infant Christ, and St Anne.
  In the Louvre