title: Leonardo da Vinci: The Graphic Work
author:  Frank Zllner 
description: Frank Zllner wrote his doctoral thesis on motifs originating from Antiquity in the history of art and architecture of the Medieval and Renaissance periods (1987). He is also the author of a postdoctoral treatise on motion and expression in the art of Leonardo da Vinci, published in 2010. He has published numerous works on Renaissance art and art theory, and on 20th-century art. Since 1996 he has been Professor of Medieval and Modern Art at the University of Leipzig. For TASCHEN he has authored the XL monographs on Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.
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  # Little Journeys To The Homes Of Eminent Artists
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Elbert Hubbard
  
  
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  RAPHAEL
  
  
  LEONARDO
  
  
  BOTTICELLI
  
  
  THORSWALDSEN
  
  
  GAINSBOROUGH
  
  
  VELASQUEZ
  
  
  COROT
  
  
  CORREGGIO
  
  
  BELLINI
  
  
  CELLINI
  
  
  ABBEY
  
  
  WHISTLER
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
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  ### RAPHAEL
  
  
  
  
  
    
  And with all this vast creative activity, he recognized only one
  
  
  self-imposed limitation—beauty. Hence, though his span of life was
  
  
  short, his work is imperishable. He steadily progressed: but he was
  
  
  ever true, beautiful and pure, and freer than any other master from
  
  
  superficiality and mannerism. He produced a vast number of pictures,
  
  
  elevating to men of every race and of every age, and before whose
  
  
  immortal beauty artists of every school unite in common homage.
  
  
    
  — _Wilhelm Lubke_
  
  
    
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