Lionardesque

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

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

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

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series John Addington Symonds 1866

Like everything touched by the Lionardesque 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 ascendant Mother of Heaven.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series 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 Lionardesque in its quietude, must be discerned in Lucy and her sisters.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

Like everything touched by the Lionardesque 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 ascendant Mother of Heaven.

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

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

Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866

The drawing has obvious Lionardesque qualities; but how far it may be from the character of the original we can guess by Rubens 'transcript from Mantegna.

Renaissance in Italy Volume 3 The Fine Arts John Addington Symonds 1866