A treatise on painting

1835·11.4 MB·English

by  Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519

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A
TREATISE
ON
PAINTING,
BY
LEONARDO DA
VINCI:
FAITHFULLY TRANSLATED FROM THE ORIGINAL
ITALIAN,
AND DIGESTED UXDER 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 COPEER-PLATES,
AND OTHER FIGURES.
TO WHICH IS PREFIXED A LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,
WITH A CRITICAL ACCOUNT OF HIS WORKS,
Bv JOHN WILLIAM BROWN, Esq.
LONDON:
J. B. NICHOLS AND SON, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET.
SOLD ALSO BY
\V. PICKERING, CUAXCERY LAXE; J. WEALE, HIGH HOLBORX ;
AND J. WILLIAMS, CHARLES STREET, SOHO.
1835.
Ars est habitus ariDAM faciendi vera cum rationk.
Aristot. Ethic. Lib. 6.
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CONTENTS,
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PAGE
Preface v
Preface to Rigaud's Trauslation - - viii
Lifeof Leonard! da Vinci, by J. W, Brown, Esq. xiii
CatalogueoftheprincipalWorkspaintedbyLeonardo
da Vinci - _ - - - xc
Memoir of J. F Rigaud, Esq. R. A. - - c
Treatise on Painting.
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Drawing Proportion - - -
Anatomy - - - - 13
Motion and Equipoiseof Figures - - 27
Linear Perspective - - - .50
Invention,or Composition - - - 63
Expression and Character - - 90
Light and Shadow - - 96
Contraste and Effect - - - 11
Reflexes - - - - 116
Colours and Colouring _ - _ 124
Colours in regard to Light and Shadow - 143
Colours in regard to Back*grounds - lo2
Contraste, Harmony, andReflexes in regard to
Colours - » - - 1.5.5
IV CONTENTS.
PAGE.
Perspective ofColours - 163
Aerial Perspective - - 180
Miscellaneous Observations.
Landscape, &c. - - 224
General Table of Chapters, with References
to the corresponding Chapters in the original
Italian . . - . 227
DIRECTIONS TO THE BINDER.
Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci
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