The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci, Volume 1
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Excerpt
A singular fatality has ruled the destiny of nearly all the
most
famous of Leonardo da Vinci’s works. Two of the three
most important
were never completed, obstacles having arisen during his
life-time,
which obliged him to leave them unfinished; namely the
Sforza
Monument and the Wall-painting of the Battle of Anghiari, while
the
third—the picture of the Last Supper at
Milan—has suffered
irremediable injury from decay and the repeated restorations
to
which it was recklessly subjected during the XVIIth and
XVIIIth
centuries. Nevertheless, no other picture of the Renaissance
has
become so wellknown and popular through copies of every
description.
