In the Fogg Museum at noon today Professor Post will give his second lecture on Leonardo da Vinci.

Leonardo is one of the most versatile and fascinating figures in all history. His eager restlessness of spirit was typically Renaissance, but his mind belonged more to the twentieth century than to his own day.

Painting, sculpture, architecture, music, mechanics, engineering and natural philosophy were among the fields to which this extraordinary man turned his talents. To this versatility he added an extremely personable person, a polished charm, and an aptitude for any accomplishment.

There was apparently no sort of activity from the art of horseback riding in which Leonardo could not outshine his contemporaries. Few of his paintings have survived, for he did comparatively few. His own versatility injured his greatness, for if he had concentrated in painting, instead of expending his energies in every other conceivable direction as well, he would hold an even higher place in the world of art than he does now.

He would have specialized to the greater glory of his art, however, at the expense of the glamor of his personality, and we would have been robbed of a figure that typifies to us the Renaissance.

Other lectures of interest are:

10 O'clock

"Modern Peru," Professor Haring, Harvard 2, History 56.

11 O'clock

"North Italian Painting: The Early Renaissance in Venice," Professor Edgell, New Fogg Museum, Fine Arts 1d.

12 O'clock

"The Decline of the Dinosaurs and Their Kin in Later Mesoxoic Time," Professor Mather, Geological Lecture Room, Geology 5.