Leonardo da Vinci by Giorgio Vasari ‘Here I feel that I

‘Here I feel that I have come to the place that I needed most in all the world… The hills all round seem to me like an emerald vessel brimming over with peace and sunshine

The young girl is strangely drawn to this drunken ruin of a man

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not even a dead man's

" And without taking the time to execute a perfectly calculated leap from the platform as she usually did

Leonardo da Vinci by Giorgio Vasari ‘Here I feel that I'In this painting of Leonardo's there was a smile so pleasing that it seemed divine rather than human.'Often called "the first art historian", Vasari writes with delight on the lives of Leonardo and other celebrated Renaissance artists.