By William Wray
This booklet captures the sweetness and genius of Leonardo da Vinci's writings, that are followed by way of his evocative sketches and drawings. detect the farsightedness and brilliance of the brain that introduced us many of the maximum paintings and so much marvelous innovations from the Mona Lisa to the recent air balloon. The textual content is focused on 4 themes:
• Science—observations of the actual world
• Mechanics—looking at wheels and weight, swimming and flight
• Art—color, shape, gentle, share, and more
• Life—tales and allegories, and the character and that means of lifestyles
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42 I Lighl and colollr 'If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it. If you see a woman dressed in white in the midst of a landscape that side which is towards the sun is bright in colour, so much so that in some proportions it will dazzle the eyes like the sun itself; and the side which is towards the atmosphere, luminous through being interwoven with the sun's rays and penetrated by them...
He understood from experience how the artist stood in contemplation at the point where that inner and outer light met. ' • . ~, '. , Light and darkness I N LEONARDO'S paintings are to be seen the infinite gradations of light and dark. 'Every solid body is surrounded and clothed with light and darkness. ' 34 I Light and darkness He understood this playas no other painter had done before him, displaying his expertise in the techniques of chiaroscuro and sjitmato. ' 3J 36 I Light and darkness In his record of nature, Leonardo was the master of the brilliance of illumination contrasting with tonal gradation into mystery and darkness.
52 I Linear perspective 'The air is full of straight and radiating lines intersected and interwoven with one another. ' 53 Leonardo: maHer artisl I Aerial perspective L EONARDO SAW that the density of the atmosphere made a considerable difference to how distant things appeared. One of the things that Leonardo is famed for is his mastery of sjitmato, which meant painting with minute gradations of tone to produce a misty or vaporous effect. He used this technique as a way of conveying aerial perspective.