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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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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).

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A
TREATISE
ON
PAINTING,
BY
LEONARDO DA VINCI.
Printed by S. GLjǪƿŧƯƯ,
Little Queen Street, Holborn, London.
Leonardo Da Vinci

A

TREATISE

ON

PAINTING,

BY

LEONARDO DA VINCI.

FAITHFULLY TRANSLATED FROM THE

ORIGINAL ITALIAN,

AND NOW FIRST DIGESTED UNDER PROPER HEADS,

BΏ JOHN FRANCIS RIGAUD, EǪǟ.

ACADEMICIAN OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF PAINTING AT LONDON, AND

ALSO OF THE ACADEMIA CLEMENTINA AT BOLOGNA, AND THE ROYAL

ACADEMY AT STOCKHOLM.

Illustrated with twenty-three Copper-plates, and other Figures.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

A NEW LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

DRAWN UP FROM AUTHENTIC MATERIALS TILL NOW INACCESSIBLE,

BΏ JOHN SIDNEY, HAWKINS, EǪǟ. F.A.S.

Ars est habitus quidam faciendi verâ cum ratione.

ARISTOT. ETHIC. LIB. 6.

London:

PRINTED FOR J. TAYLOR,

AT THE ARCHITECTURAL LIBRARY, HIGH HOLBORN.

M.DCCC.II.

TABLE OF CHAPTERS.

The Number at the End of each Title refers to the corresponding Chapter in the original Edition in Italian.

DRAWING.

PROPORTION.

Chap.

1.

Wƒĵǵ the young Student in

Painting ought in the first Place to

learn. Chapter 1.

2.

Rule for a young Student in Painting.

3.

3.

How to discover a young Man’s

Disposition for Painting. 4.

4.

Of Painting, and its Divisions. 47.

5.

Division of the Figure. 48.

6.

Proportion of Members. 49.

7.

Of Dimensions in general. 173.

8.

Motion, Changes, and Proportion of

Members. 166.

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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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