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Definition of Leonardesque
1. Adjective. In the manner of Leonardo da Vinci.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Leonardesque
Literary usage of Leonardesque
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Modern Painters by John Ruskin (1906)
"When the form of some single object is to be given, and its subtleties are to be
rendered to the utmost, the Leonardesque manner of drawing is often very ..."
2. Modern Painters by John Ruskin (1858)
"When the form of some single object is to be given, and its subtleties are to be
rendered to the utmost, the Leonardesque manner of drawing is often very ..."
3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1911)
"It is strictly characteristic of his work; and has been called Leonardesque.
In the strangely beautiful countenance of Monna Lisa it has affected visitors ..."
4. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1911)
"It is strictly characteristic of his work; and has been called Leonardesque.
In the strangely beautiful countenance of Monna Lisa it has affected visitors ..."
5. Lectures on Architecture and Painting: Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 by John Ruskin, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1856)
"... and you will find that this whole range of landscape may be conveniently
classed in three divisions, namely, Giot- tesque, Leonardesque, ..."
6. Lives of Seventy of the Most Eminent Painters, Sculptors and Architects by Giorgio Vasari (1896)
"Evidently he found in the Gioconda exactly that type which was most sympathetic
and interesting to him, for the Lisa is the incarnation of the Leonardesque ..."
7. The Story of Milan by Ella Noyes (1908)
"Bernardino dei Conti painted Madonnas in the Leonardesque manner, ... He may have
served as model for some of those Leonardesque drawings of youths with ..."
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