Leonardo da Vinci Virgin of the Rocks paintingLeonardo da Vinci The Virgin and Child With St Anne paintingLeonardo da Vinci St John the Baptist painti

Leonardo da Vinci Virgin of the Rocks paintingLeonardo da Vinci The Virgin and Child With St Anne paintingLeonardo da Vinci St John the Baptist painting
There was a scent of dust in the air; a thin vestige surviving in the twilight from the golden clouds with which before chapel the House Room fags had filled the evening sunshine. Light was failing. Beyond the trefoils and branched mullions of the windows the towering autumnal leaf was now flat and colourless. All the eastward slope of Spierpoint Down, where the buildings stood, lay lost in shadow; above and behind, on the high lines of Chanctonbury and Spierpoint Ring, the first day of term was gently dying.
In the House Room thirty heads were bent over their books. Few form-masters had set any preparation that day. The Classical Upper Fifth, Charles Ryder’s new form, were “revising last term’s work” and Charles was his diary under cover of Hassall’s History. He looked up from the page to the darkling texts which ran in Gothic script around the frieze. “Qui diligit Deum diligit et fratrem suum.”