The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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OF PAINTING.  
Make your work carry out your purpose and meaning. That is when you  
draw a figure consider well who it is and what you wish it to be  
doing.  
OF PAINTING.  
With regard to any action which you give in a picture to an old man  
or to a young one, you must make it more energetic in the young man  
in proportion as he is stronger than the old one; and in the same  
way with a young man and an infant.  
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OF SETTING ON THE LIMBS.  
The limbs which are used for labour must be muscular and those which  
are not much used you must make without muscles and softly rounded.  
OF THE ACTION OF THE FIGURES.  
Represent your figures in such action as may be fitted to express  
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