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40

General remarks on perspective.

ON PAINTING.

Perspective is the best guide to the art of Painting.

[Footnote: 40. Compare 53, 2.]

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

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Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
II: Linear Perspective.
General remarks on perspective.
40,
41
The elements of perspective--Of the Point.
42,
43,
44,
45,
46
Of the line.
47,
48,
49
The nature of the outline.
50
Definition of Perspective.
51
Experimental proof of the existence of the pyramid of sight.
52,
53,
54
The relations of the distance points to the vanishing point.
55,
56
How to measure the pyramid of vision.
57
The Production of pyramid of Vision.
58,
59,
60
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