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A treatise on painting / Leonardo da Vinci ; translated from the Italian by John Francis Rigaud.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Publication details: Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, 2005.Description: 156 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0486441555 (pbk.)
  • 9780486441559 (pbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Trattato della pittura. English
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • ND1471 .L4613 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
Drawing -- Proportion -- Anatomy -- Motion and equipoise of figures -- Linear perspective -- Invention, or composition -- Expression and character -- Light and shadow -- Contrast and effect -- Reflexes -- Colours and colouring -- Colours in regard to light and shadow -- Colours in regard to back-grounds -- Contrast, harmony, and reflexes in regard to colours -- Perspective of colours -- Aerial perspective -- Miscellaneous observations -- Landscape, etc.
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Translation of: Trattato della pittura.

Unabridged republication of the main text and illustrated plates from the new edition, revised, of the work originally published by George Bell & Sons, London, in 1877.

Drawing -- Proportion -- Anatomy -- Motion and equipoise of figures -- Linear perspective -- Invention, or composition -- Expression and character -- Light and shadow -- Contrast and effect -- Reflexes -- Colours and colouring -- Colours in regard to light and shadow -- Colours in regard to back-grounds -- Contrast, harmony, and reflexes in regard to colours -- Perspective of colours -- Aerial perspective -- Miscellaneous observations -- Landscape, etc.