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Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science; Year: 1898. Authors: Müntz, Eugène, 1845-1902. 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/leonardodavincia01munt/leonardodavincia01munt#page/n32/mode/1up ) .About This Book: Catalog Entry ( details/leonardodavincia01munt ) .View All Images: All Images From Book .Click here to view book online ( stream/leonardodavincia01munt/leonardodavincia01munt#page/n32/mode/1up ) to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book....Text Appearing Before Image:.THE CiENIUS OF LEONARDO..Text Appearing After Image:.the re-creation — afterVerrocchio and afterDonatello—of the monu-mental treatment of thehorse. Painter and sculptor,Leonardo was also a poet,and not among the leastof these. He is, indeed,pre-eminently a poet ; firstof all, in his pictures,which evoke a wholeworld of delicious impres-sions ; and secondly, inhis prose writings, notablyin his Trattato delta Pit-tura, which has only latelybeen given to the worldin its integrity. Whenhe consented to silence the analytic faculty so strongly developed inhim, his imagination took flight with incomparable freedom andexuberance. In default of that professional skill, which degeneratestoo easily into routine, we find emo-tion, fancy, wealth and originality ofimages ; qualities which also count formuch. If Leonardo knows nothingof current formulae, of winged andstriking words, of the art of con-densation, he acts upon us by someindwelling charm, by some magicoutburst of genius. The thinker and the moralist areallied to the poet. Leonardos ap.