person
Leonardo da Vinci
Leonardo
also: Lionardo
Italian painter, sculptor, and polymath (1452-1519); Rilke calls him 'the sculptor' and credits the inward, unmeetable gaze of his Gioconda.
Reading notes
- Auguste Rodin §21 Leonardo
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), here called 'the sculptor'; Rilke credits him with the inward, self-contained gaze of the Gioconda.