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LIONARDO DA VINCI.
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Melzi. Those ruined pictures which bear his name
at Windsor and at Hampton Court are from the
Milanese school.*
Of nine pictures in the Louvre attributed to
Lionardo, three only—the St. John, and the two
famous portraits of the Mona Lisa and Lucrezia
Crivelli—are considered genuine. The others are
from his designs and from his school.
In the Florentine Gallery the Medusa is cer-
tainly genuine; but the famous Herodias holding
the dish to receive the head of John the Baptist, was
probably painted from his cartoon by Luini. His
own portrait, in the same gallery (in the Salle des
l‘ei ntres), is wonderfully fine ; indeed the finest of
all, and the one which at once attracts and fixes
attention.
In the Milan collections are many pictures at-
tributed to him: a few are in private collections in
England : Lord Ashburton has an exquisite group
of the Infant Christ and St. John playing with a
lamb, and there is a small Madonna in Lord
Shrewsbury’s gallery at Alton Towers.
But it is the MS. notes and designs left behind
him that give us the best idea of the indefatigable
industry of this “ myriad-minded man,” and the
* The Falconer at Windsor I believe to be by Holbein,
and it is curious that this is not the first nor only Holbein
which has been attributed to Lionardo. There is one in the
Liverpool Institute, and I have known others.
27
Melzi. Those ruined pictures which bear his name
at Windsor and at Hampton Court are from the
Milanese school.*
Of nine pictures in the Louvre attributed to
Lionardo, three only—the St. John, and the two
famous portraits of the Mona Lisa and Lucrezia
Crivelli—are considered genuine. The others are
from his designs and from his school.
In the Florentine Gallery the Medusa is cer-
tainly genuine; but the famous Herodias holding
the dish to receive the head of John the Baptist, was
probably painted from his cartoon by Luini. His
own portrait, in the same gallery (in the Salle des
l‘ei ntres), is wonderfully fine ; indeed the finest of
all, and the one which at once attracts and fixes
attention.
In the Milan collections are many pictures at-
tributed to him: a few are in private collections in
England : Lord Ashburton has an exquisite group
of the Infant Christ and St. John playing with a
lamb, and there is a small Madonna in Lord
Shrewsbury’s gallery at Alton Towers.
But it is the MS. notes and designs left behind
him that give us the best idea of the indefatigable
industry of this “ myriad-minded man,” and the
* The Falconer at Windsor I believe to be by Holbein,
and it is curious that this is not the first nor only Holbein
which has been attributed to Lionardo. There is one in the
Liverpool Institute, and I have known others.