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A Treatise on Painting — da Vinci Leonardo

A Treatise on Painting

da Vinci Leonardo

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 235 pages

A Treatise on Painting is a collection of Leonardo da Vinci's writings on the art of painting, translated from Italian and arranged under subjects such as drawing, proportion, perspective, light and shade, colour, and composition. It offers practical observations and reflections for artists and anyone interested in how Leonardo saw nature and representation.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. A TREATISE ON PAINTING,
  2. TABLE OF CHAPTERS.
  3. PREFACE TO THE PRESENT TRANSLATION.
  4. THE LIFE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI.
  5. CATALOGUE OF THE WORKS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI.
  6. A TREATISE, &c.
  7. DRAWING.
  8. PROPORTION.
  9. INVENTION, or COMPOSITION.
  10. LIGHT and SHADOW.
  11. COLOURS and COLOURING.
  12. MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS.
  13. THE FULL PROJECT GUTENBERG™ LICENSE

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