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London, England, 1849-01-25 00:00:00

idirl*4llsl JANUARY 25, 1849,

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Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings on Steel.
ON PHYSICAL DISQUALICATIONS, GENERATIVE INCAPA-
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MEMORANDA OF A MUSICIAN.

AY GEORGE J. 0. ALLMANN.

" Notes, notes, forsooth, and noting!"
SHAM

No. VII.
LEONARDO DA VINCI.

How versatile and extraordinary was the genius this
remarkable man possessed who united in himself the
treble mastership of the arts of Painting, Poetry, and
Music. In each and all of them he excelled, and al-
though his professed avocation was the first-named
branch of art, he was esteemed a perfect scholar and
fulfilled the post of violinist in the orchestre of Ludovico
Sforza Duke of Milan. His instrument was a very
singular one, and possessed a silver neck shaped like
that of a horse. Francis the First held him in high
esteem, and venerated the extent and diversity of his
talent, and all the world knows that when the great
Artist was seized with his last illness the noble-hearted
Monarch hastened to visit him, but arrived only in time
to clasp the beloved painter and poet-musician in his
arms and receive his last sigh as the heaven-born
spirit winged its silent way through the paths of Space
to its final abiding place, to dwell for ever with the Just.
My friend Mr. Fisk has made this scene the subject of
one of his finest pictures. The deathbed of Da Vinci,
the anguish expressed by the countenances of all who
surround it, and the attitude of the grief-stricken and
sorrowing Francis, together with the sublime and holy
inspiration which shine out, like a halo of immortal
glory, from the collapsed features of the dying hero, are
portrayed with the most consummate perfection of art,
which takes nothing else than Nature for its model.
History affords few parallels, save those of Michael
Angelo and Salvator Rosa, of such wonderful and ver-
satile genius being united in one individual.