Ebook Leonardo Da Vinci

Whilst the conception of Leonardo as a thinker, discoverer and scientist has thus been very greatly expanded, modern art-research has been compelled to narrow the compass of his artistic work. More than half of what, a generation ago, was regarded as the authentic work of Leonardo, has gradually been pronounced to be that of others; on the other hand, attempts that have been made to replace what is lost by attributing other works to him, must, on the whole, be characterised as failures.