Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci With an introduction by Charles Lewis Hind LEONARDO DA VINCI found in drawing the readiest and most stimulating way of self-expression. The use of pen and crayon came to him as naturally as the monologue to an eager and egoistic talker. The outline designs in his "Treatise on Painting" aid and amplify the text with a force that is almost unknown in modern illustrated books. Open the pages at random. Here is a sketch showing "the greatest twist which a man can make in turning to look at ...
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Drawings of Leonardo da Vinci With an introduction by Charles Lewis Hind LEONARDO DA VINCI found in drawing the readiest and most stimulating way of self-expression. The use of pen and crayon came to him as naturally as the monologue to an eager and egoistic talker. The outline designs in his "Treatise on Painting" aid and amplify the text with a force that is almost unknown in modern illustrated books. Open the pages at random. Here is a sketch showing "the greatest twist which a man can make in turning to look at himself behind." The accompanying text is hardly needed. The drawing supplies all that Leonardo wished to convey. Unlike Velasquez, whose authentic drawings are almost negligible, pen, pencil, silver-point, or chalk were rarely absent from Leonardo's hand, and although, in face of the Monna Lisa and The Virgin of the Rocks and the St. Anne, it is an exaggeration to say that he would have been quite as highly esteemed had none of his work except the drawings been preserved, it is in the drawings that we realise the extent of "that continent called Leonardo." The inward-smiling women of the pictures, that have given Leonardo as painter a place apart in the painting hierarchy, appear again and again in the drawings. And in the domain of sculpture, where Leonardo also triumphed, although nothing modelled by his hand now remains, we read in Vasari of certain "heads of women smiling."
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Good+ in Good jacket. Book. 4to-over 9æ-12" tall. Hardcover, red cloth in publisher's non price-clipped dust-jacket. 492 pages; 172 pages of text followed by 320 pages of reproductions. Edited with an introduction by A.E. Popham. First American edition. Bound uniformly with the two volume set of the Notebooks, which are offered as a separate lot. No previous ownership marks. Mild damp-stain to fore-edge of rear board and dust-jacket, affecting just the edge of margins on last several pages. Dust-jacket worn. A sound, tight, internally clean copy with strong hinges and no marking to text or illustrations. Good+ in a good dust-jacket.
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Very Good. Hardcover; green cover cloth with gilt titles, gilt decoration on front; fa ding and shelf wear to exterior, especially at spine; deckled page edges; o therwise in very good condition with clean text, firm binding.
