509

On the size of the studio.

Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it.

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

508 * 510

VII * X

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci

VIII: Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting.

. . .

489

How to acquire practice.

490

Industry and thoroughness the first conditions.

491,

492

The artist’s private life and choice of company.

493,

494

The distribution of time for studying.

495,

496,

497

On the productive power of minor artists.

498,

499,

500,

501

A caution against one-sided study.

502

How to acquire universality.

503,

504,

505,

506

Useful games and exercises.

507,

508

On the size of the studio.

509

On the construction of windows.

510,

511,

512

On the best light for painting.

513,

514,

515,

516,

517,

518,

519,

520

On various helps in preparing a picture.

521,

522,

523,

524,

525,

526,

527,

528,

529

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