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... Leonardo's vision and work foretold a later mode of integration that has still to be achieved . There are many ways of looking upon the life of Leonardo da Vinci . One may see him as the meticulous painter whose passion for perfection ...
... Leonardo's vision and work foretold a later mode of integration that has still to be achieved . There are many ways of looking upon the life of Leonardo da Vinci . One may see him as the meticulous painter whose passion for perfection ...
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... Leonardo was full of admiration for his predecessors . ( See Volume One . ) The facile way of disposing of Leonardo's genius is to ally it with a supposedly vanished characteristic of the Renascence mind : to treat it as the product of ...
... Leonardo was full of admiration for his predecessors . ( See Volume One . ) The facile way of disposing of Leonardo's genius is to ally it with a supposedly vanished characteristic of the Renascence mind : to treat it as the product of ...
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... Leonardo's works and days : but that expression - though imperfect- pervaded his whole life . Significantly , he was not alone : minds of the same caliber , like Dürer's and Michelangelo's , surrounded him , and similar minds came into ...
... Leonardo's works and days : but that expression - though imperfect- pervaded his whole life . Significantly , he was not alone : minds of the same caliber , like Dürer's and Michelangelo's , surrounded him , and similar minds came into ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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