Leonardo da Vinci Notebooks by Irma Anne Richter

Author:Irma Anne Richter
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Notebooks, Fiction, art monographs, Art Monographs, European, Drawing By Individual Artists, Renaissance, sketchbooks, Individual Artist, History - Renaissance, Renaissance art, Individual Painters - Renaissance, Drawing & drawings, Leonardo, Drawing, Techniques - Drawing, History, Individual Artists - General, 1452-1519, Art, Individual artists, General, etc, da Vinci, Techniques, Art & Art Instruction
ISBN: 9780199299027
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015-02-06T16:00:00+00:00

The painter ought always to consider, when he has a wall on which he has to represent a story, the height at which he will locate his figures, and when he draws from nature for this composition, he ought to take a position with his eye as much below the object that he is drawing, as the object, when inserted into the composition, will be above the eye of the observer. Otherwise the work will be reprehensible.184

Why groups of figures one above another are to be avoided

This practice, which is universally adopted by painters on the walls of chapels, is by reason strongly to be condemned seeing that they represent one scene at one level with its landscape and buildings, and then they mount to the stage above this to represent another scene and so vary the point of sight from that of the first, and then make a third and a fourth scene in such a way that on one wall there are four points of sight, which is extreme folly on the part of such masters.

We know that the point of sight is opposite the eye of the spectator of the scene, and if you were to ask how I should represent the life of a saint divided into several scenes on one end of the same wall I answer to this that you must set the foreground with its point of sight on a level with the eye of the spectator of the scene. And on this plane represent the first episode on a large scale. And then by diminishing gradually the figures and buildings upon the various hills and plains you can represent all the events of the story. And on the rest of the wall up to the top you will make trees of sizes proportioned according to the figures or angels if these are appropriate to the story, or birds or clouds or similar things; otherwise do not put yourself to the trouble for all your work will be wrong.185

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