Leonardesque

Leonardesque, and through an open window in the background we clearly see the streamlet flowing between rocky shores.

Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters Deristhe L. Hoyt

He stared at her, and felt again that she had failed to be Leonardesque.

A Room with a View 1924

(No. 557 G in the Berlin Gallery) with soft, almost Leonardesque shadows, seen against the luminous hazy sea and sky, which remains absolutely unique in method and effect among his works, and makes one ask oneself unanswerable questions as to what might not have been the result if he could but have brought himself to accept the offered citizenship and salary, and stop on at Venice.

Albert Durer T. Sturge Moore 1907

Of the other pictures I like best No. 613, reproduced opposite page 260, with the Leonardesque saint on the right; and No. 610, with its fine blues, light and dark, and the very Venetian

A Wanderer in Venice Harry [Illustrator] Morley 1903

Like everything touched by the Leonardesque spirit, this great picture was left unfinished; yet Northern Italy has nothing finer to show than the landscape, outspread in its immeasurable purity of calm, behind the grouped Apostles and the ascendent Mother of

New Italian sketches John Addington Symonds 1866

There is, however, one young man of wholly Leonardesque loveliness, whose divine innocence of adolescence, unalloyed by serious thought, unstirred by passions, almost forces a comparison with Sodoma.

New Italian sketches John Addington Symonds 1866

It is not impossible that the male saints of the loggia may be also his, though a tenderer touch, a something more nearly Leonardesque in its quietude, must be discerned in Lucy and her sisters.

New Italian sketches John Addington Symonds 1866

Leonardo da Vincis employed at this moment in your harbours and railroads: but you are not employing their Leonardesque or golden faculty there, -- you are only oppressing and destroying it.

A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market) John Ruskin 1859

_Giottesque_, _Leonardesque_, and _Titianesque_; the Giottesque embracing nearly all the work of the fourteenth, the Leonardesque that of the fifteenth, and the Titianesque that of the sixteenth century.

Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 John Ruskin 1859

The Leonardesque view of the Alps encloses a rich anthology of natural and human terrains, a world map in one glorious vista.

The Guardian World News Jonathan Jones 2010