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A
TREATISE
ON
PAINTING,

BY

LEONARDO DA VINCI.


Printed by S. Gosnell,
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,

By JOHN FRANCIS RIGAUD, Esq.

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,

By JOHN SIDNEY, HAWKINS, Esq. 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 Chapterin the original Edition in Italian.


DRAWING.
PROPORTION.
Chap.
1.What 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.
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