A Treatise on Painting

Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Drawing-Proportion Anatomy Motion and Equipoise of Figures Linear PerspectiveInvention! or Composition Expression and CharacterLight and Shadow Contrast and Effect ReflexesColours and Colouring Colours in regard to Light and Shadow Colours in regard to Back-grounds Contrast! Harmony! and Reflexes in regard to Colours Perspective of Colours Aerial PerspectiveMiscellaneous Observations Landscape! etc.

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• Authors: Leon Battista Alberti, Leon Battista Vinci Alberti, Leonardo Da Vinci, Leonardo, Leonardo da Vinci, Leonardo Da (Author) Vinci
• Assisted by: Leon Battista Alberti (Illustration), Nicholas Poussin (Illustration), John Francis Rigaud (Translation)
• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.04.2005
• EAN: 9780486441559
• ISBN: 978-0-486-44155-9
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art; Dover Fine Art, History of Art
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Plastic arts