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It is clear from the passage that, though Leonardo sometimes chose subjects from classical sources,----.

Leonardo's importance as a painter may be
summarized by saying that he was the first master of
the high Renaissance style, and of all his scientific
researches that which he most fully devoted to this
end was his study of light and shade. Many changes
came about in Italian painting around the turn of the
15th-16th century, for which he more than anyone
else was responsible. As regards subject matter and
composition, painting became less realistic and more
classical but as regards treatment it became more
naturalistic and closer to life, which was partly the
result of increased knowledge of anatomy and an
interest in light and shade. In his rare excursions into
classical subjects, such as the "Leda", Leonardo's
approach is intensely personal. Indeed, drawings by
Leonardo which seem to derive from antique art are
excessively rare and there is no evidence of his
interest in the celebrated collections of Lorenzo the
Magnificent or Pope Leo X, even though he was
living in close contact with both of these. This trend is
not belied by the "Last Supper" even though it
epitomizes the spirit of classical art.