Image from page 29 of "Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science;" (1898)

Identifier: leonardodavincia02mn.Title: Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidleonardodavincia02mn ) .Year: 1898 ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookyear1898 ) (1890s ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookdecade1890 ) ).Authors: Müntz, Eugène, 1845-1902 ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookauthorM__ntz__Eug__ne__1845_1902 ) .Subjects: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksubjectLeonardo__da_Vinci__1452_1519 ) .Publisher: London : W. Heinemann ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisherLondon___W__Heinemann ) New York, C. Scribner's sons ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookpublisher_New_York__C__Scribner_s_sons ) .Contributing Library: University of California Libraries ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookcontributorUniversity_of_California_Libraries ) .Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/booksponsorInternet_Archive ) ...View Book Page: Book Viewer ( stream/leonardodavincia02mn/leonardodavincia02mn#page/n29/mode/1up ) .About This Book: Catalog Entry ( details/leonardodavincia02mn ) .View All Images: All Images From Book ( ...internetarchivebookimages/tags/bookidleonardodavincia02mn ) ..Click here to view book online ( stream/leonardodavincia02mn/leonardodavincia02mn#page/n29/mode/1up ) to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book....Text Appearing Before Image:.of theAntonines, notably those of Lucius Verus.^ Even for facial types Leonardo deigned, now and then, thoughrarely, to consult the ancients. His John the Baptist, in the Louvre,is clearly based on certain antique types, half masculine and half feminine, such as the! —-^-^-^ -^ <. Apollino, the Bac- chus, and the Herma-phroditus, and yet thecombination is tho-roughly Leonardesque. If there be one pagein this work of Leonardowhich betrays studyfrom nature, and espe-cially study of thehorses anatomy, morethan another, it is assu-redly that Battle ofAnghiari, of which oneepisode has been pre-served in a drawing byRubens, and in a fewmore or less partialcopies. The episode isthat known as theFight for the Standard.It had never occurredto me to investigate in that direction, when accident, the greatexplorer, brought under my eyes a cameo presenting remarkableanalogies, not to say more, with one of the motives employed byLeonardo. This cameo (see p. i6) represents the Fall of Phaeton...Text Appearing After Image:.STUDY OF A HEAD FOR THE LAST SUPPER. INSPIRED BV THEANTIQUE, (Windsor Library.) ^ See Médaillons de I Empire Romain, \^. 93, et passim. As to Leonardos imitationof the Apollo Saurodonos, of Praxiteles, see vol. i., p. 204. LEONARDO AND IIII: ANTIQUE 13.