600

Of appropriate gestures.

OF SETTING ON THE LIMBS.

The limbs which are used for labour must be muscular and those which are not much used you must make without muscles and softly rounded.

OF THE ACTION OF THE FIGURES.

Represent your figures in such action as may be fitted to express what purpose is in the mind of each; otherwise your art will not be admirable.

SUGGESTIONS FOR COMPOSITIONS.

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

599 * 601

VII * X

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci

VIII: Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting.

. . .

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,

620

. . .