A Treatise on Painting

by da Vinci Leonardo

[ [i203] Ibid.

[ [i204] Ibid.

[ [i205] Supp. in Vasari, 67.

[ [i206] Ibid. 68.

[ [i207] Supp. in Vasari, 75.

[ [i208] Ibid.

[ [i209] Supp. in Vasari, 80.

[ [i210] Supp. in Vasari, 81.

[ [1] This passage has been by some persons much misunderstood, and supposed to require, that the student should be a deep proficient in perspective, before he commences the study of painting; but it is a knowledge of the leading principles only of perspective that the author here means, and without such a knowledge, which is easily to be acquired, the student will inevitably fall into errors, as gross as those humorously pointed out by Hogarth, in his Frontispiece to Kirby’s Perspective.

[ [2] See Chap. 351.