Conway, Agnes Ethel, Conway, Martin, Sir · London : Adam and Charles Black · leaf 106
r the most part unfinished. Leonardo da Vinci, the older contemporary ofRaphael, first in Florence and afterwards in thenorth of Italy, left a colossal reputation and butfew pictures, for in his search after perfection hebecame dissatisfied with what he had done andis said to have destroyed one… … The Knights Dream. From the picture by Raphael, in the National Gallery, London. Page 84 RAPHAEL 81 are designs he made for the construction of animaginary beast with gigantic claws. He onceowned a lizard, and made wings for it with quick-silver inside them, so that they quivered when thelizard…
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