Word: vinci
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When he was low in funds, II Sodoma gave in to the pleas of his admiring patrons and worked a bit. He had well assimilated the painting techniques of his consistently great contemporaries, Da Vinci and Raphael. He had once taken the trouble to copy Da Vinci's painting of Leda, which has since been lost, and II Sodoma's copy was long mistaken for the original. He could draw, when he cared to, with serene accuracy; he knew how to round out shapes by blurring their contours (sfumato), and how to steep his fingers in rippling depths...
...Would [Censor Breen] advocate that portions be cut out from the canvases of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Titian or El Greco because they depict certain parts of human anatomy...