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TREATISE LEONARDO DA VINCI. Originally published in 1877. PREFACE:
Vll ono was Issued by Messrs. Nichols and Son, to which was added a
Life of Leonardo by Mr. John William Brown. This gentleman had the
privilege of constant admittance not only to the private library of
his Imperial and Royal Highness the Grand Duke of Tuscany, but also
to his most rare and valuable collection of Manuscripts in the
Palazzo Pitti, where ho was permitted to copy from the original
docttments and correspondence whatever he con ceived useful to Ms
subject. He was enabled to produce what was then the most
trustworthy Life of Leonardo that had over appeared. Since that
time many new biographies of Leonardo have been written, of which
ono of the most important is that by Signor Gustavo TIzielli. The
1835 edition of the Treatise on Painting has long been scarce, It
is now reprinted, and the more recent facts which have boon
discovered concerning the life of Leonardo, and a full account of
Ms manuscripts and his acknowledged paintings have been added.
Nicholas Poussins drawings and Albertis designs are reproduced, and
great pains have boon taken to make Leonardos work as useful as
possible to students of Art. John Francis Bigaud, the translator of
the Trattato della Pittura, was born of French parents at Turin, in
1742. His father, who was a merchant, intended his son to follow Ms
profession but young Bigaud evinced so strong a talent for
painting, that he was allowed to follow his own desires. After he
had received good instruction in art from Choralier Beaumont,
principal painter to the King of Sardinia, Bigaud travelled much,
in Italy, and stayed more especially in Homo, Parma, and in
Bologna, where, in 1760, ho was elected a member of tho Olomontino
Academy. In 1772, Ragatid loft Italy and wont to Pann, where he
remained but a short time Ho then camo to England, and gained much
praise for IUH picture of Hercules. In the November of tho year of
his arrival ho was elected an Associate of tho Royal Academy, and
In 1784 he became a full mombor. With tho exception of a journey on
the Continent, I igaud spent tho rest of his life in England. Ho
died in 181,0, at Packing-ton, irt Warwickshire, the seat of tho
Karl of Aylosford, his obiof patron. In tho parish church at
Pacldngton is an alte r-pi0e painted by Itigaud for tho Karl of
Aylosford - no to worthy from, the circumstance that it m mipponod
to bo tho first work executed in fresco in thifli country. Among
other honours in art, Iltgaud was mado a Mem ber of th Royal
Academy of Stockholm, and Painter to the King of Sweden. Contents
include: THE LIFE OF LEONARDO DA VINCI ... ... xi BE A WING
Proportion, ., ... ... ... 1 Anatomy .., ... .. ... ... 10 Motion
and Equipoise of Figures ... ... ... 20 Linear Perspective ... ..
... ... 37 INVENTION, OB COMPOSITION ... ... ... ... 45 Expression
and Character, ... ... 63 LIGHT AND SHADOW ... ... ... ... ... 67
Contrast and Effect ... ... ... ... 80 Betoes ... ... ... ... ...
81 COLOUBS AND COLOUBING ... .. ... 87 Colours in regard to Light
and Shadow ... ... 100 Colours in regard to Back-grounds ... ...
106 Contrast, Harmony, and Eeflexes in regard to Colours 108
Perspective of Colours . M ... ... . . . 1 M Aerial Perspective, ..
. 125 X CONTENTS. IAOK MISCELLANEOUS OBSEBVATIONS ... ... ... 135
Landscape, etc, ... ... ... ... 135 GENBBAL INDEX ... ... ... ...
... 157 APPENDIX I. Manuscripts of Leonardoda Vinci ... ... 178 II.
Classified Catalogue of Ms principal Paintings Holy families,
Madonnas, etc. ... ... 170 Sacred Historical Subjects ... .. 197
Classical Subjects ... ... ... ... 204 Historical Subjects .. ...
... 209 Portraits ... ... ... ... ... J10 Pictures Lost or Missing
..., , S g III...
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This second volume in a series of studies on The Colonial Economy
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