661

On the history of painting.

That the first drawing was a simple line drawn round the shadow of a man cast by the sun on a wall.

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

VII * X
Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
VIII: Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting.
. . .
641,
642,
643,
644,
645,
646,
647,
648,
649,
650
The relation of art and nature.
651,
652
Painting is superior to poetry.
653,
654
Painting is superior to sculpture.
655,
656
Aphorisms.
657,
658,
659
On the history of painting.
660,
661
The painter’s scope.
662