Powers, H. H. (Harry Huntington), 1859-1936 · Newton, University Prints · leaf 251
piece seems hopeless. Theimagination in which dwelt such figures as these withoutnumber, would hardly feel, as we do, the pity of sacrificingsuch a beginning. When the convenient season shouldcome, that ineffable left hand had but to raise the magicwand, and these lovely forms would come forth at… … C 16, Madonna, Child, and St. Anne. Louvre, Paris.Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519. Leonardo, the Magician of the Renaissance 235 the more compact group, the single apex, and the desiredform, the Virgin mother sits in Saint Annes lap and leansover to the child who plays with the lamb. The idea is…
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