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    A Treatise on Painting (Trattato della pittura) is a collection of Leonardo da Vinci's writings entered in his notebooks under the general heading "On...
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    Some of his works were published as A Treatise on Painting 165 years after his death. Leonardo illustrated a book on mathematical proportion in art written...
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    Leonardo da Vinci (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    000 words toward a treatise on anatomy. Only a small amount of the material on anatomy was published in Leonardo's Treatise on painting. During the time...
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  • inhabitants use the same stairway in the same direction and on the same side, but each using a different face of each step; thus, one descends the stairway...
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    Basket of Fruit (Caravaggio) (category Oil on canvas paintings)
    Monte's friend Vincenzo Giustiniani. The scholarly Giustiniani wrote a treatise on painting years later, wherein, reflecting the hierarchical conventions of...
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    are held to be as important for modern art as Leonardo da Vinci's A Treatise on Painting was for the Renaissance. He and his colleague, Russian painter Wassily...
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    De pictura (redirect from On Painting)
    De pictura (English: "On Painting") is a treatise or commentarii written by the Italian humanist and artist Leon Battista Alberti. The first version,...
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    Albrecht Dürer (redirect from A. Dürer)
    by his theoretical treatises, which involve principles of mathematics for linear perspective and body proportions. Dürer was born on 21 May 1471, the third...
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    da Vinci's papers, editing them into a manuscript on painting he published as Trattato della Pittura [Treatise on Painting] or a compilation entitled the Codex...
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    Baptist by Bernardino Luini (a follower of Leonardo) and Bacchus, a disputed painting that is sometimes attributed to Leonardo. On long-term loan from the...
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  • 845M. doi:10.1127/0935-1221/2006/0018-0845. John Burnet (1880), A Treatise on Painting in Four Parts, (Google Books) David Bomfeld, Christopher Brown,...
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    (mostly architecture treatise, contains a large section on paintings) Manasollasa (an encyclopedia, contains chapters on paintings) Abhilashitartha chinatamani...
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  • slightly earlier published treatise, in his own architectural treatise. The painting consists of a city landscape, glowing in the morning light, nearly empty...
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    A Treatise of Human Nature: Being an Attempt to Introduce the Experimental Method of Reasoning into Moral Subjects (1739–40) is a book by Scottish philosopher...
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    modern art that they are compared to the importance that Leonardo's A Treatise on Painting had for Renaissance. Herbert Read called the collection "the most...
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    The Ostrich Egg Globe is a hollow terrestrial globe made from the conjoined lower halves of two ostrich eggs. The map carved on the globe is an extremely...
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    Wayback Machine Scientific American, May 2001 da Vinci, L. (2012). A Treatise on Painting. United States: Dover Publications. p. 149 Book News. 1897. p. 143...
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    Italian Renaissance by Leonardo da Vinci. In A Treatise on Painting he stated that: All the branches of a tree at every stage of its height when put together...
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  • its protagonist on his deathbed, his completed masterpiece at his side—centers on the struggling artist Leonardo's commission to paint a young woman named...
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    his 1584 Treatise on Painting. The theory itself may be impossible to definitively prove or disprove, but proponents of the theory highlight a number of...
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    David (Bernini) (category Coordinates on Wikidata)
    of Leonardo da Vinci on the subject. Da Vinci, in his Treatise on Painting, deals with exactly the question of how to portray a throwing figure. It is...
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    treatises on painting and drawing, Grondlegginge Ter Teekenkonst (1701), based on geometry and Groot Schilderboek (1707), were highly influential on 18th-century...
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    Cadaver (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)
    draw a skull in 1489. Further study under Verrocchio, some of Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical work was published in his book A Treatise on Painting.[self-published...
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  • one of the oldest known complete Sanskrit treatises on painting arts in India. The Vishnudharmottara Purana is a Vaishnava-tradition text. It includes mythology...
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    Annunciation, a Last Judgement and a final painting called Virgo Lucis above the door, which may have gave its name to the castle. The museum also includes a copy...
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    Leda and the Swan (Galleria Borghese) (category 16th-century painting stubs)
    Leda and the Swan is a tempera grassa on panel painting by an artist from the circle of Leonardo da Vinci, probably Cesare da Sesto. It dates to c. 1510-1520...
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    contrary, painting stays in existence, and will show you as being alive what is, in fact, on a single surface. — Leonardo da Vinci, A Treatise on Painting (1490–1492)...
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    devoted much of his time to architecture, but he published a treatise on painting in 1652 under a pseudonym and in collaboration. He refused invitations to...
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    Presbyter (a pseudonymous author who is sometimes identified as Roger of Helmarshausen) gives instructions for oil-based painting in his treatise, De diversis...
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    English portrait miniaturist Nicholas Hilliard cautioned in his treatise on painting against all but the minimal use we see in his works, reflecting the...
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