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How to represent the differences of age and sex.

How the ages of man should be depicted: that is, Infancy, Childhood, Youth, Manhood, Old age, Decrepitude.

[Footnote: No answer is here given to this question, in the original MS.]

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

581 * 583
VII * X
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VIII: Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting.
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On the lighting of the background.
562,
563,
564,
565
On the lighting of white objects.
566
The methods of aerial.
567,
568,
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
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