Note 52 — Chapter V · DAWN OF THE GOLDEN AGE: BOTTICELLI AND LEONARDO DA VINCI
Reading edition
The best study of this picture and of its contemporary influence is that of George Gronau in Zeitschrift für bildende Kunst. N. F. Vol. XXIII, pp. 253–259. He fails to perceive that so primitive a picture as late as 1478 furnishes the best reason for accepting most of the rejected early Leonardos.