589

The selection of forms.

When selecting figures you should choose slender ones rather than lean and wooden ones.

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

588 * 590

VII * X

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci

VIII: Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting.

. . .

569,

570

Of sketching figures and portraits.

571,

572

The position of the head.

573

Of the light on the face.

574,

575,

576

General suggestions for historical pictures.

577,

578,

579,

580,

581

How to represent the differences of age and sex.

582,

583

Of representing the emotions.

584

Of representing imaginary animals.

585

The selection of forms.

586,

587,

588,

589,

590,

591

How to pose figures.

592

Of appropriate gestures.

593,

594,

595,

596,

597,

598,

599,

600

Of painting battle pieces.

601,

602,

603

Of depicting night-scenes.

604

Of depicting a tempest.

605,

606

Of representing the deluge.

607,

608,

609

. . .