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course. And, as proof of the studies of this class which 

 the masters have made, we may cite Raphael, Michel- 

 angelo, and, above all, Leonardo da Vinci ; and, of the 

 moderns, Gericault. And we may more clearly define 

 these proofs by an examination of the reproductions of 

 their anatomical works, chosen from certain of their special 

 writings.* 



Accordingly, there is no scope for serious discussion, and 

 it only remains for us to enunciate the opinion that it is 

 necessary that we should imitate those masters, and, with 

 a sense of respectful discipline, follow their example. 



Here, with regard to the anatomy of animals, we pursue 

 the same method, and the example chosen shall be that of 

 Barye. His talent is too far above all criticism to allow 

 that this example should be refused. The admiration 

 which the works of this great artist elicit is too wide-spread 

 for us to remain uninfluenced by the lessons furnished by 

 his studies. It is sufficient to see the sketches relating 

 to these studies, and his admirable casts from nature 

 which form part of the anatomical museum of the Ecole 

 des Beaux-Arts, to be convinced that the artistic tem- 

 perament, of which Barye was one of the most brilliant 

 examples, has nothing to lose by its association with re- 

 searches the precision of which might seem likely to check 

 its complete expansion. 



In those sketches we find proofs of observation so scrupu- 

 lous that we cannot restrain our admiration for the man 



* Mathias Duval and A. Bical, ' L'anatomie des Maitres.' Thirty plates 

 reproduced from the originals of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, 

 Gericault, etc., with letterpress and a history of plastic anatomy, Paris, 

 1890. 



The manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci of the Royal Library, Windsor, 

 'Anatomy, Foliae A.,' published by Theodore Sabachnikoff, with a French 

 translation, written and annotated by Giovanni Piumati, with an introduction 

 by Mathias Duval. Edouard Rouveyre, publisher, Paris, 1898. 



Mathias Duval and I-ldouard Cuyer, ' History of Plastic Anatomy : The 

 Masters, their Books, and Anatomical Figures ' (Library of Instruction of the 

 School of Fine Arts), Paris, 1898. 



