The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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On the management of works (531. 532).  
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31.  
OF A METHOD OF LEARNING WELL BY HEART.  
When you want to know a thing you have studied in your memory  
proceed in this way: When you have drawn the same thing so many  
times that you think you know it by heart, test it by drawing it  
without the model; but have the model traced on flat thin glass and  
lay this on the drawing you have made without the model, and note  
carefully where the tracing does not coincide with your drawing, and  
where you find you have gone wrong; and bear in mind not to repeat  
the same mistakes. Then return to the model, and draw the part in  
which you were wrong again and again till you have it well in your  
mind. If you have no flat glass for tracing on, take some very thin  
kidts-kin parchment, well oiled and dried. And when you have used it  
for one drawing you can wash it clean with a sponge and make a  
second.  
5
32.  
THAT A PAINTER OUGHT TO BE CURIOUS TO HEAR THE OPINIONS OF EVERY  
ONE  
ON HIS WORK.  
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