599

Of appropriate gestures.

OF PAINTING.

Make your work carry out your purpose and meaning. That is when you draw a figure consider well who it is and what you wish it to be doing.

OF PAINTING.

With regard to any action which you give in a picture to an old man or to a young one, you must make it more energetic in the young man in proportion as he is stronger than the old one; and in the same way with a young man and an infant.

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

598 * 600

VII * X

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci

VIII: Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting.

. . .

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

Of depicting natural phenomena.

610,

611

Of chalk and paper.

612,

613,

614,

615,

616,

617

On the preparation and use of colours.

618,

619

. . .