Category: Art
This e-text is based on the 1802 edition. The original spelling has been retained, as well as inconsistencies, such as 'musquetry'/'musketry', 'Du Frêne'/'du Fresne', 'Melzio'/'Meltio'/'Melzi', etc. Uncommon or old-style spelling has not been altered, such as 'opake' (opaque),...
/The/ air will participate less of the azure of the sky, in proportion as it comes nearer to the horizon, as it is proved by the third and ninth proposition[70], that pure and s...
12. Part 12/The/ reflected lights will be more or less apparent or bright, in proportion as they are seen against a darker or fainter ground; because if the ground be darker than the refle...
3. Part 3Some time after Leonardo's arrival at Milan, a design had been entertained of cutting a canal from Martesana to Milan, for the purpose of opening a communication by water betwee...
15. Part 15The representation of an object in every degree of distance, loses degrees of its strength; that is, in proportion as the object is more remote from the eye it will be less perc...
10. Part 10/The/ first and principal part of the art is composition of any sort, or putting things together. The second relates to the expression and motion of the figures, and requires th...
8. Part 8/The/ shoulders or sides of a man, or any other animal, will preserve less of their level, in proportion to the slowness of their motion; and, _vice versâ_, those parts will los...
4. Part 4This Will bears date, and appears to have been executed on the 23d of April 1518. He however survived the making of it more than a year; and on the 23d of April 1519[i73], the d...
11. Part 11/The/ student who is desirous of making great proficiency in the art of imitating the works of Nature, should not only learn the shape of figures or other objects, and be able t...
13. Part 13Of different bodies equal in whiteness, and in distance from the eye, that which is surrounded by the greatest darkness will appear the whitest; and on the contrary, that shadow...
5. Part 5"All that is good in this book may be written on one sheet of paper, in a large character, and those who believe that I approve all that is in it, do not know me; I who profess...
6. Part 6_The portraits of Lodovic Sforza, Duke of Milan, and Maximilian his eldest son, and on the other side Beatrix his dutchess, and Francesco his other son_, all in one picture, in...
7. Part 7/Young/ children have all their joints small, but they are thick and plump in the spaces between them; because there is nothing upon the bones at the joints, but some tendons to...
2. Part 2The excellence of the following Treatise is so well known to all in any tolerable degree conversant with the Art of Painting, that it would be almost superfluous to say any thin...
17. Part 17[Footnote i37: Additions to the Life in Vasari, 53. My worthy friend, Mr. Rigaud, who has more than once seen the original picture, gives this account of it: "The cutting of the...
16. Part 16A large eye-ball will see objects larger than a small one. The experiment may be made by looking at any of the celestial bodies, through a pin-hole, which being capable of admit...
1. Part 1This e-text is based on the 1802 edition. The original spelling has been retained, as well as inconsistencies, such as 'musquetry'/'musketry', 'Du Frêne'/'du Fresne', 'Melzio'/'...
9. Part 9/This/ custom, which has been generally adopted by painters, on the front and sides of chapels, is much to be condemned. They begin with an historical picture, its landscape and...
18. Part 18[Footnote 33: The author here speaks of unpolished Nature; and indeed it is from such subjects only, that the genuine and characteristic operations of Nature are to be learnt. I...