text:  At this period of the "dawn of modern art Leonardo da Vinci broke forth with a splendour which distanced former excellence; made up of all the elements that constitute the essence of genius; favoured by education and circumstances--all ear all eye all grasp; painter poet sculptor anatomist architect engineer chemist machinist musician man of science and sometimes empiric he laid hold of every beauty in the enchanted circle but without exclusive attachment to one dismissed in her turn each