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Trattato della pittura

by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael Trichet Du Fresne, Leon Battista Alberti

Cover of Trattato della pittura
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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.

PaintingEarly works to 1800ManuscriptsFacsimilesCodex Vaticanus Urbinas 1270SculptureTechniqueDrawingPerspectivePaintersBiographyPainting, history