The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci  
Volume 2  
Translated by Jean Paul Richter  
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XI.  
The notes on Sculpture.  
Compared with the mass of manuscript treating of Painting, a very  
small number of passages bearing on the practice and methods of  
Sculpture are to be found scattered through the note books; these  
are here given at the beginning of this section (Nos. 706-709).  
There is less cause for surprise at finding that the equestrian  
statue of Francesco Sforza is only incidentally spoken of; for,  
although Leonardo must have worked at it for a long succession of  
years, it is not in the nature of the case that it could have given  
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