Treatise on Painting
work by Leonardo da Vinci
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aerial perspective
- In aerial perspective
…term aerial perspective in his Treatise on Painting, in which he wrote: “Colours become weaker in proportion to their distance from the person who is looking at them.” It was later discovered that the presence in the atmosphere of moisture and of tiny particles of dust and similar material causes…
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discussed in biography
- In Leonardo da Vinci: Science of painting
…the Trattato della pittura (“Treatise on Painting”) that is attributed to Leonardo. Only about a quarter of the sources for Melzi’s manuscript—known as the Codex Urbinas, in the Vatican Library—have been identified and located in the extant notebooks, and it is impossible to assess how closely Melzi’s presentation of…
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view of fashion
- In dress: Rebellion
…da Vinci wrote in his Treatise on Painting, published long after his death, that art should avoid the fashion:
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