Identifier: leonardodavincia01mn (find matches)
Title: Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science
Year: 1898 (1890s)
Authors: Müntz, Eugène, 1845-1902
Subjects: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519
Publisher: London : W. Heinemann New York : C. Scribner's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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OF HF(Uffizi .DS, HATF-n Florence.) Ill Study for a Head of the Vifi^in, ascribed to Leonardo.
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THE ANNUNCIATION IN THE LOUVRE 49 Modern criticism, inconsolabe at the loss of these early masterpieces, has ingeniously endeavoured to fill up so regrettable a gapin Leonardos work by a series of productions which undoubtedlyreveal the influence of the young artist, but which have perhapsbeen too hastily accepted as his own. One of the earliest and most interesting among these isthe Annunciation in theLouvre, in the galleryoverlooking the river.This picture, which is ofvery small dimensions(14 cm. high by 59 cm.wide, with figures 15 cm.high), was formerly archedat the top but is nowrectangular. It was at-tributed to Lorenzo diCredi until Bayersdorfer,whose opinion was adoptedby Morelli, proposed togive it the name ofLeonardo. The curly-headed angel kneeling ina sort of ecstasy in frontof the Virgin, suggeststhe one in the Annunci-ation of the Uffizi, to which we shall presently refer. The Virgin, too, presents theLeonardesque type, with an added touch of morbidesza. But thistype, as

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