No age has perhaps ever been more brilliant, more permiated with life and power than the Italian Renaissance, and no man among all the great men of the time, was more gifted than Leonardo da Vinci.
This man, lamous as a sculptor, architect, musician, mechanician engineer, philosopher, but particularly as a painter, was the son of a Florentine lawyer, born out of wedlock by a mother of humble station. From early age he showed that he possessed the spark which was to burst forth into the flame of genius. He was not one of those artists of the Renaissence who sought to revive the ancient glories of art by the imitation of Greek and Roman models . He was a tireless student of nature and from it he drew the subtile play of light and shade, the harmony and rhythm of line which raises his work so high among his contemporaries.
But Leonardo da Vinci was not only a painter and master of the fine arts. Much of his time and thought was spent in the designing of projects in mechanics, hydraulics, military engineering in feeling his way along the thread of experimental study in every branch of theoretical and applied scence known to his age.
It would be interesting to compare this man of universal interests to another man of only slightly loess universal genius Goethe. Here also was one who beside being one of the greatest if not the supreme poet of one era, was a scientist of note, and the prime minister of a principality. Indeed there seems o be a similarity between these two men of which not the least evidence is in the sincere admiration of the poet for the painter.
Professor Edgell will speak on Leonardo da Vinci at 10 o'clock this morning in Robinson Hall.
Other events of interest today are:
9 o'clock
"Nature vs. Nurture in the Development of Man," Professor Holmes, Lawrence 3. Eduaction A.
10 o'clock
"The Hartford Wits," Professor Murdock, Harvard 2, English 33.
4 o'clock
"La Mystique de S. Bernard et la Quetodu Saint Graal," Professor Gilson, Emerson J.
4.30 and 8.15 o'clock
"Carol Service at Appleton Chapel."
