Codex Urbinas

A Treatise on Painting (Trattato della pittura), printed edition Roma, 1817.

A Treatise on Painting is a collection of Leonardo da Vinci's writings entered in his notebooks under the general heading "On Painting". The manuscripts were gathered together by Francesco Melzi some time before 1542 and first printed in French and Italian as Trattato della pittura by Raffaelo du Fresne in 1651. The main aim of the treatise was to argue that painting was a science.^[1]^[2] Leonardo's keen observation of expression and character is evidenced in his comparison of laughing and weeping, about which he notes that the only difference between the two emotions in terms of the "motion of the [facial] features" is "the ruffling of the brows, which is added in weeping, but more elevated and extended in laughing." ^[3]

References

↑ "Science: Science of Painting". Britannica. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
↑ The Collected Essays and Criticism: Affirmations and refusals, 1950-1956 By Clement Greenberg, John O'Brian, page 259. Books.google.com. Retrieved 2013-05-06.
↑ Chapter CLXXII, trans. Rigaud. https://archive.org/details/davincionpainting00leon

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Leonardo da Vinci
List of works Science and inventions Personal life
Paintings	Medusa The Annunciation The Baptism of Christ The Madonna of the Carnation Ginevra de' Benci Benois Madonna The Adoration of the Magi St. Jerome in the Wilderness Madonna Litta Virgin of the Rocks Portrait of a Musician Lady with an Ermine La Belle Ferronnière Salvator Mundi Madonna of the Yarnwinder The Virgin and Child with St. Anne Mona Lisa Head of a Woman (La Scapigliata) Leda and the Swan St. John the Baptist
Works on walls	The Last Supper Sala delle Asse The Battle of Anghiari
Sculptures	Sforza monument (unexecuted) Horse and Rider Rearing Horse and Mounted Warrior
Works on paper	Vitruvian Man Portrait of a Young Fiancée The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist Self-portrait Studies of the Fetus in the Womb
Manuscripts	Codex Arundel Codex Atlanticus Codex on the Flight of Birds Codex Leicester Codex Madrid Codex Trivulzianus Codex Urbinas
Other projects	De divina proportione Architonnerre Leonardo's crossbow Leonardo's fighting vehicle Leonardo's robot Leonardo's self-propelled cart Viola organista
Leonardeschi	Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio Cesare da Sesto Giampietrino Giovanni Agostino da Lodi Bernardino Luini Cesare Magni Marco d'Oggiono Francesco Melzi Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis Salaì Andrea Solari
Posthumous fame	Cultural references Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations Things named after da Vinci
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