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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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STUDY FOR THE ADORATION THE ADORATION OF THE MAGI 73 borrowed several of the worshippers placed to the left in his Dispute ofthe Sacrament, one of the most animated and eloquent of his groups.
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TYPES OF VIRGIN AND CHILD. SCHOOL OF LEONARDO. (Bonnat Collection, Paris.) This imitation is very evident in a drawing in the late Due dAumales collection.^ Three of the figures on the left, the old man leaning ^ See Crowe and Cavalcaselle, Raphael, vol. ii. p. 31-34. 74 LEONARDO DA VINCI forward, the young man In profile beside him, and the man with hisback to the spectator in the foreground, are ahnost exactly reproduced ;as is also the person standing on the extreme left, wrapped in a cloak,his chin resting on his hand. The breadth and majesty of this lastfigure, indeed, inspired yet another artist, more powerful and originalthan Raphael, an artist who was always ready to cry out againstplagiarism, though he himself did not fail to lay the works of hispredecessors under contribution. I refer to Michelangelo. Comparethe figure of God the Father in his Creation of Eve in the SistineChapel with this old man of Leonardos. The analogy is striking. In this Adoration of the Magi, which bi

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