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A Treatise on Painting

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The main aim of the treatise was to argue that painting was a science. Leonardo's keen observation of expression and character is evidenced in his comparison of laughing and weeping, about which he notes that the only difference between the two emotions in terms of the "motion of the features" is
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from 18 of Leonardo's "books" (two-thirds of which have gone missing). After Melzi's death in 1570, the collection passed to his son, the lawyer Orazio, who initially took little interest in the journals, but they were later dispersed.
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to be published, a task of overwhelming difficulty because of its scope and Leonardo's idiosyncratic writing. Sometime before 1542, Melzi gathered together the papers for
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Leonardo Da Vinci's Treatise of Painting: The Story of The World's Greatest Treatise on Painting - Its Origins, History, Content, And Influence
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All the branches of a tree at every stage of its height when put together are equal in thickness to the trunk .
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that Leonardo's advice on the studying of stains on walls caused him an "unbearable visual obsession".
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Archaeologia: Or Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, Volume 40, Part 1
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by Raffaelo du Fresne in 1651. After Melzi's version was rediscovered in the
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The manuscripts were begun in Milan while Leonardo was under the service of
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The Collected Essays and Criticism: Affirmations and refusals, 1950-1956
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The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne and Saint John the Baptist
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Museo Nazionale Scienza e Tecnologia Leonardo da Vinci (Milan)
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It was printed in an abridged form in French and Italian as
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Madonna and Child with the Infant Saint John the Baptist
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This manuscript contains the famous branching rule:
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Index

Trattato della Pittura

Leonardo da Vinci
Ludovico Sforza
Francesco Melzi
Vatican Library
Ludovico Sforza
Leon Battista Alberti
Cennino Cennini
Francesco Melzi
Vatican Library
Max Ernst
Cahiers d'Art
Elmer Belt
UCLA
List of works by Leonardo da Vinci
"Science: Science of Painting"
Britannica
Clement Greenberg
John O'Brian
The Collected Essays and Criticism: Affirmations and refusals, 1950-1956
ISBN
9780226306230
https://archive.org/details/davincionpainting00leon
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
ISBN
0-486-22572-0
cite book
link
Wallace 1972

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