638

On chemical materials.

Note how aqua vitae absorbs into itself all the colours and smells of flowers. If you want to make blue put iris flowers into it and for red solanum berries (?)

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

637 * 639

VII * X

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci

VIII: Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting.

. . .

On the preparation and use of colours.

618,

619,

620,

621,

622,

623,

624,

625,

626,

627

Of preparing the panel.

628

The preparation of oils.

629,

630,

631,

632,

633,

634

On varnishes [or powders].

635,

636,

637

On chemical materials.

638,

639,

640,

641,

642,

643,

644,

645,

646,

647,

648,

649,

650

The relation of art and nature.

651,

652

Painting is superior to poetry.

653,

654

Painting is superior to sculpture.

655,

656

Aphorisms.

657,

658

. . .