Word: leonardo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Currents in American Thought" is no available in one volume. Still te best study of American literature, as far as it goes . . . Thomas Mann's "The Magic Mountain" is also to be had in one volume . . . Still another telescoping in Edward McCurdy's spendid edition of "The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci", very good to have or give . . . Professor John Livingston Lowes' classic of literary research. "The Read to Xangdn," has now been reprinted. May it long serve to remind us that literary scholarship can itself produce the finest of literature
...large part of the work discussed as Leonardo's by such 19th-Century critics as Walter Pater was not done by Leonard at all, but by his followers. "But after 50 years of research and stylistic analysis," writes Kenneth Clark, "we have at last reached some sort of general agreement as to which pictures and drawings are really by Leonardo. We must [now again] look at pictures as creations not simply of the human hand, but of the human spirit...
Looking thus at da Vinci's art, Kenneth Clark finds himself most attracted to certain works of precisely the same period as the Madonna with the Cat, done in Leonardo's late twenties. The drawings for the Madonna with the Cat "show, as nothing else in his work, a direct and happy approach to life " As Leonardo's intellectual wrestle with painting went on even his drawings became less spontaneous and his paintings took on a cold quality of mystery...
Kenneth Clark does not press profoundly into the conflicts of da Vinci's character. But he is often suggestive, as when he says that Leonardo's restless versatility, which in later life kept him busy experimenting with grandiose and unpractical engineering projects when he should have been painting, was "a disease of the will similar to that which ruined the magnificent intellect of Coleridge." Like Coleridge da Vinci had a turbulent romantic imagination. In his unfinished Adoration of the Kings he painted what Clark calls "the most revolutionary and anticlassical picture of the 15th Century," extraordinary for an El Grecoesque...
...Brother of the late Willard Huntington Wright,"S. S. Van Dine." *LEONARDO DA VINCI Macmillan...