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A drawing in silver point on brown toned paper of a womans headlooking to the
left.
HENRY WALLIS in the Art Journal, New Ser.
A silver-point study on
greenish paper, for the head of John theBaptist, reproduced on p.
VASARI in his
life ofLeonardo (IV, 21, ed. On the cover of these volumes is acopy from one of
them.
This emblem was displayed duringthe Carnival at Florence in 1513. We have
only to compare it withthe undoubtedly genuine drawings of heads of the
disciples in PI. we find here and there little sketches orsuggestions for
similar ornaments.
It was not perhaps until some years later that Leonardoin a
letter to the Duke (No.
The names arewritten in the margin following the order
in which they are hereprinted.
notes referring to the celebrated
Parispicture.
Ermine with blood Galeazzo, between calm weather and
arepresentation of a tempest.
His reading varies somewhat from that heregiven,
_e. notes referring to the celebrated Parispicture.
Death sooner than I am
never weary of weariness.
Death sooner than I am never weary of
weariness.
Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. There is a
study of an outstretched hand--No. Such as harm is when it hurts me not, is
good which avails me not. 344, is only intendedto give a general notion of the
composition.
Here, at this bridge thereis a severe struggle; our men conquer
and the enemy is repulsed. These four genuine studies form, I believe, a
valuable substitute inthe absence of any MS.
LXVIII shows a base in which the
angles areformed by niches with pilasters. These four genuine studies form, I
believe, a valuable substitute inthe absence of any MS.
Now VASARI, in the life
of_Andrea del Castagno_ (Vol. He adds this note with regard toGualtieri: _A
questo M. Notonly is the writing unlike his, but the spelling also is
quitedifferent.
Such as harm is when it hurts me not, is good which avails me
not. Il Morocovers him with the skirt of his robe, and with his gilt sceptre
hethreatens the monster.
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