| 1871 - 870 pages
...something denoting wisdom, intellect, and majesty ; the bearing of a tender infant with the majesty of an old man." With a boldness of self-assertion,...any living artist, either in sculpture or painting." The duke and his court were captivated by the charm of his conversation, which exercised an irresistible... | |
| Charles Callahan Perkins - 1864 - 432 pages
...and as if each Lionardo had been the exclusive study of his life. In but one of these many sculptor, manifestations of his genius, that of sculpture, for...duke and his court were captivated 'by 1 Trattato del? Arch. Scul. e Pitt., vol. i. lib. i. ch. xx. p. 115. 'L. da Vinci, che £ stato eccellente ed... | |
| 1871 - 832 pages
...something denoting wisdom, intellect, and majesty ; the bearing of a tender infant with the majesty of an old man." With a boldness of self-assertion,...any living artist, either in sculpture or painting." The duke and his court were captivated by the charm of his conversation, which exercised an irresistible... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1877 - 568 pages
...second was unrealisable in bronze. ' I can do anything possible to man,' he wrote to Lodovico Sforza, 'and as well as any living artist either in sculpture or painting.' But he would do nothing as taskwork, and his creative brain loved better to invent than to execute.'2... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1882 - 588 pages
...second was unrealizable in bronze. ' I can do any thing possible to man,' he wrote to Lodovico Sforza, 'and as well as any living artist either in sculpture or painting.' But he would do nothing as task-work, and his creative brain loved better to invent than to execute.2... | |
| John Addington Symonds - 1883 - 574 pages
...second was unrealizable in bronze. ' I can do any thing possible to man,' he wrote to Lodovico Sforza, 'and as well as any living artist either in sculpture or painting.' But he would do nothing as task-work, and his creative brain loved better to invent than to execute.... | |
| Selwyn Brinton - 1900 - 362 pages
...having described his knowledge of the natural sciences, of engineering, of hydraulics, he adds : " I can do anything possible to man, and as well as any man living, either in sculpture or painting." At the brilliant court of Lodovico Sforza, where he was... | |
| Selwyn Brinton - 1907 - 136 pages
...having described his knowledge of the natural sciences, of engineering, of hydraulics, he adds : " I can do anything possible to man, and as well as any man living, either in sculpture or painting." At the brilliant court of Lodovico Sforza, where he was... | |
| 1911 - 880 pages
...of an intuitive perception of what was to come, — and it was not brag when he wrote to his patron, Lodovico Sforza, "I can do anything possible to man,...any living artist either in sculpture or painting." Our own James Russell Lowell, be it remembered, was a worshiper of the Mono. Lisa, and his pen wrote... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph H. Orth - 1990 - 404 pages
...tree up into free space Archimedes 8c Newton left one feat for another VS 2.46 Leonardo da Vinci wrote to Duke Lodovico Sforza, "I can do anything possible...any living artist, either in sculpture or painting." — "Professors of music & masters of arms were in turn obliged to acknowledge his incontestable superiority,... | |
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