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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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ugh pos-sessing, in a certain sense, nothing of his own, and working but little, he had constantlyabout him servants and horses, of which he was passionately fond, as he was of allanimals. 2 An interesting essay in this direction has been made by Herr v. Seidlitz : SpringerStiidien. See also Dr. Bodes article in the Jahrhuch der kg. Frtuss. Kunstsainmhtnge7i,1886, p. 238 et seq.., and my Histoire de /Artpendant la Renaissance, vol. ii, j). 787 et. seq. TUSCAN ARTISTS AT MILAN ^25 Tuscany, which for more than two centuries had served as an artnursery to the rest of the peninsula, Lombardy had been con-stantly obliged to call in foreign masters : in the thirteenth andfourteenth centuries, Giotto, Giovanni of Pisa, and Balduccio of Pisa,the somewhat mediocre sculptor of the famous reredos of Saint PeterMartyr in the church of S. Eustorgio ; in the fifteenth century,Brunellesco, Masolino, Fra Filippo Lippi, Paolo Uccello; thearchitect Michelozzo, the most distinguished among the pupils of
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DESIGNS FOR WAR CHARIOTS. (Windsor Library.) Brunellesco, and his fellow-students and compatriots, Benedetto ofFlorence, and Filarete. More even than these masters, Donatello hadextended Florentine influence by establishing an advance post ofTuscany, at Padua. Roughly speaking, in the early Renaissance, justas in the time of Giotto, every reform introduced, every progressaccomplished in Milan, received its impulse from Florence. Con-currently with Leonardo, architects of repute like Giuliano da SanGallo, Luca Fancelli, and Francesco di Giorgio Martini, arrived atthe Lombard capital to confirm the prestige of the Tuscan school. 126 LEONARDO DA VINCI Bramante alone was of different origin, but would he havetriumphed so rapidly in Milan if the Florentines had not paved theway ? Brought up at Urbino, a pupil of the famous Dalmatianarchitect, Luciano da Laurana, who himself had figured for a briefperiod—in 1465—in the service of the Sforzi,^ Bramante temperedthe austerity of the Floren

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