Then as now, Leonardo’s boy angels are feminine to the point of being androgynous; it is true of the angel in his early Annunciation
Notes
da vinci – genius vs craftsman
He was a perfectionist faced with challenges other artists would have disregarded but that he could not. So he put down his brushes. That
da vinci and Borgia
In December 1502, Cesare Borgia committed a typical act of brutality. He had empowered a deputy, Ramiro de Lorca, to tyrannize Cesena and the
da vinic
On February 9, 1498, Leonardo starred in an evening of debates at the Sforza Castle that involved the relative merits of geometry, sculpture, music,
The body, like the mind, adopts better to a broader, less predictable, range of activity
That is, the more contexts in which something is learned, the more the learner creates abstract models, and the less they rely on any
David O. McKay (1873-1970) American Religious Leader
Robert Browning
F.E. Willard
Spurgeon
Robert Browning
Are there not… Two points in the adventure of the diver: One — when a beggar, he prepares to plunge? Two — when a