661

On the history of painting.

That the first drawing was a simple line drawn round the shadow of a man cast by the sun on a wall.

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.

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641,

642,

643,

644,

645,

646,

647,

648,

649,

The relation of art and nature.

651,

Painting is superior to poetry.

653,

Painting is superior to sculpture.

655,

Aphorisms.

657,

658,

On the history of painting.

660,

The painter’s scope.