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> # Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.

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## More from Kenneth Clark

1. > To Leonardo a landscape, like a human being, was part of a vast machine, to be understood part by part and, if possible, in the whole. Rocks were not simply de…

[Permalink to quote \#4](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/4/ "Permalink to quote 4")
2. > It is widely supposed that the naked human body is in itself an object upon which the eye dwells with pleasure and which we are glad to see depicted. But anyon…

[Permalink to quote \#6](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/6/ "Permalink to quote 6")
3. > Evidently one cannot look for long at the Last Supper without ceasing to study it as a composition, and beginning to speak of it as a drama. It is the most lit…

[Permalink to quote \#3](https://quotesby.net/Kenneth-Clark/3/ "Permalink to quote 3")

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