597

Of appropriate gestures.

OF PAINTING.

Of the nature of movements in man. Do not repeat the same gestures in the limbs of men unless you are compelled by the necessity of their action, as is shown in a b.

[Footnote: See Pl. V, where part of the text is also reproduced. The effaced figure to the extreme left has evidently been cancelled by Leonardo himself as unsatisfactory.]

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

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci

VIII: Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting.

. . .

General suggestions for historical pictures.

577,

578,

579,

580,

How to represent the differences of age and sex.

582,

Of representing the emotions.

Of representing imaginary animals.

The selection of forms.

586,

587,

588,

589,

590,

How to pose figures.

Of appropriate gestures.

593,

594,

595,

596,

597,

598,

599,

Of painting battle pieces.

601,

602,

Of depicting night-scenes.

Of depicting a tempest.

605,

Of representing the deluge.

607,

608,

Of depicting natural phenomena.

610,

Of chalk and paper.

612,

613,

614,

615,

616,

. . .