Book 2001

Leonardo on Painting

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Publisher: Yale University Press
Language: English
Published: 2001

Individual artists
Painting & paintings
Renaissance art
Theory of art
Art
Art & Art Instruction
Europe
Criticism

If you scorn painting, which is the sole imitator of all the manifest works of nature, you will certainly be scorning a subtle invention, which with philosophical and subtle speculation considers all manner of forms: sea, land, trees, animals, grasses, flowers, all of which are enveloped in light and shade.