Ebook: A Treatise on Painting

This work is the principal repository of da Vinci's practical thoughts on the technique of drawing and painting. It begins with precise instructions on drawing the human body and then moves on to techniques of rendering motion. Includes 48 anatomical drawings by Nicholas Poussin and geometrical and architectural designs by Leon Battista Alberti.;Title Page; Copyright Page; Epigraph; Table of 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.; COLOURS IN REGARD TO LIGHT AND SHADOW.; COLOURS IN REGARD TO BACKGROUNDS.; CONTRAST, HARMONY, AND REFLEXES, IN REGARD TO COLOURS.; PERSPECTIVE OF COLOURS.; AERIAL PERSPECTIVE.; MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS.; LANDSCAPE.; MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS.