He had created a type of female beauty all his own.

The face will impress itself upon your memory the first time you see it, whether in a picture by Leonardo or in one by a pupil.

You can see it in the National Gallery in the great 'Madonna of the Rocks,' and in the magnificent drawing at Burlington House.
It is not a very beautiful face, but it haunts the memory, and the Milanese artists of Leonardo's day never threw off their recollection of it.
With far less power than Leonardo, one of his imitators, Bernardino Luini, painted pictures of such charm and simplicity that almost everyone finds them delightful.

If you could see his picture of the angels bearing St.Catherine, robed in red, through the air to her last resting-place upon the hill, you would feel the beauty and peace of his gentle nature revealed in his art.

But the spell of Leonardo vanished with the death of those who had known him in life.