Excerpt from Leonardo Da Vinci
Whoever to-day undertakes to speak of Leonardo, of his life and art, must be conscious that he has only fragments to offer. Fragmentary indeed is all that we positively know of the external conditions under which he produced his works. Fragmentary too is all that we possess of his artistic legacy. And the most precious treasures that Leonardo left behind him - his drawings - have neither been reproduced collectively by the resources of modern skill, nor adequately examined from the critical point of view.
In a book intended to be read by such as find pleasure in art, there is no place for the many controversies which have arisen over the authenticity of some of his works. The critical questions the author was obliged to settle for himself and to state his own views as actual facts.
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