b) riddle; consecration; celebrated; infamous; talented; conventional; prominent; guardianship; typical; entire; advance; to order; foreseer.
IV. Here are descriptions of some of Leonardo's works of art. Match them up to the titles given below.
1. The Apostles are presented in four groups of three each.
2. Christ Child manifests his Divinity as he blesses the infant St. John.
3. This painting depicts an event from 15-th century history.
4. The face has suffered in the course of time but nothing has spoiled the sad half smile that plays about the lips.
5. It was never carried any further than the monochrome underpaint.
6. The Virgin sits on her mother's lap, as in traditional representations of this theme.
a. Mona Lisa
b. Adoration of the Magi
c. Madonna of the Rocks
d. Last Supper
e. Madonna and Saint Anna
f. Battle ofAnghiari
V. Insert the missing prepositions. Retell the text.
… Leonardo architecture was based… the twin principles… geometric relations and natural growth. And nothing was so important as the central-plan structure. This new organic architecture was realised… Bramante's plan for Saint Peter's. But the idea… it originated… Leonardo's mind. Leonardo abandoned both the planar architecture… Brunelleschi and the block architecture… AlbertI. He began… plans and perspective drawings… the same structure. Leonardo started… an octagon surrounded… eight circles, and a Greek cross whose arms, terminating… four semicircular apses, embrace four additional octagons… each… which a tower must be erected.
VI. Insert the article wherever necessary. Retell the text.
Nothing in Leonardo's scientific drawings is quite as exciting as his Olympian views of… nature, which illustrate his standpoint in… Renaissance debate about… relative importance of… various arts. Leonardo maintained that… painting deserved… position as one of… liberal arts, more than… music or… poetry… Music, he noted is dead as soon as… last sound has expired, but… work of… painting is always there to be seen. He pointed out, no one ever travelled to read… poem, but… people journey… hundreds of miles to see… painting. Leonardo did not admit… sculpture to… liberal arts;… painter could work in quiet, sitting down, richly dressed and listen to… music while he worked, while… sculptor was covered with… sweat and… dust and his ears deafened by… noise of… hammer and… chisel on… stone.
VII. Translate the text into English.
Леонардо да Винчи – первый художник Высокого Ренессанса, недолгого золотого века итальянского искусства. Произведения этого периода характеризуются синтезом прекрасных сторон жизни. Фигура ангела, написанная Леонардо, в картине его учителя Андреа Вероккио «Крещение» демонстрирует разницу в восприятии мира художниками разных эпох.
