Leonardesque, and through an open window in the background we clearly see the streamlet flowing between rocky shores. From Wordnik.com. [Barbara's Heritage Young Americans Among the Old Italian Masters] Reference
He stared at her, and felt again that she had failed to be Leonardesque. From Wordnik.com. [A Room with a View] Reference
The Leonardesque view of the Alps encloses a rich anthology of natural and human terrains, a world map in one glorious vista. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Leonardo da Vincis employed at this moment in your harbours and railroads: but you are not employing their Leonardesque or golden faculty there, -- you are only oppressing and destroying it. From Wordnik.com. [A Joy For Ever (And Its Price in the Market)] Reference
It is not impossible that the male saints of the loggia may be also his, though a tenderer touch, a something more nearly Leonardesque in its quietude, must be discerned in Lucy and her sisters. From Wordnik.com. [New Italian sketches] Reference
There is, however, one young man of wholly Leonardesque loveliness, whose divine innocence of adolescence, unalloyed by serious thought, unstirred by passions, almost forces a comparison with Sodoma. From Wordnik.com. [New Italian sketches] Reference
Like everything touched by the Leonardesque spirit, this great picture was left unfinished; yet Northern Italy has nothing finer to show than the landscape, outspread in its immeasurable purity of calm, behind the grouped Apostles and the ascendent Mother of. From Wordnik.com. [New Italian sketches] Reference
Leonardesque, Titianesque. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853] Reference
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