| 1 | Author: | Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 | Add | | Title: | The House of the Dead Hand | | | Published: | 1994 | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | Description: | "Above all," the letter ended, "don't leave Siena without
seeing Doctor Lombard's Leonardo. Lombard is a queer old
Englishman, a mystic or a madman (if the two are not synonymous),
and a devout student of the Italian Renaissance. He has lived for
years in Italy, exploring its remotest corners, and has lately
picked up an undoubted Leonardo, which came to light in a farmhouse
near Bergamo. It is believed to be one of the missing pictures
mentioned by Vasari, and is at any rate, according to the most
competent authorities, a genuine and almost untouched example of
the best period. | | Similar Items: | Find |
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