Trattato della pittura

By Leonardo da Vinci

Subjects: Biography, Ästhetik, Painting, Drawing, Ouvrages avant 1800, Manuscripts, Malerei, Sculpture, Early works to 1800, Codex Vaticanus Urbinas 1270, Painters, Painting, history, Facsimiles, Technique, Perspective, Peinture

Description: This is the first pocket-sized edition of Leonardo da Vinci's treatise on painting. The editor was a print maker who owned a print shop and saw the market for an affordable edition that would appeal to artists and art lovers. He reduced the engravings of human figures in movement to line drawings to reduce the cost.