Notebooks by unknow

Author:unknow
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: History, Fiction, General, European, Art, Renaissance, Leonardo;, Leonardo, da Vinci;, 1452-1519, Individual artists, Art Monographs, Drawing By Individual Artists, Notebooks; sketchbooks; etc, Individual Artist, History - Renaissance, Renaissance art, Individual Painters - Renaissance, Drawing & drawings, Drawing, Techniques - Drawing, Individual Artists - General, Individual artists; art monographs, Art & Art Instruction, Techniques
ISBN: 9780199299027
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-07-15T07:00:00+00:00

I cannot refrain from mentioning among these precepts a new device for study, which although it may seem trivial and almost ludicrous is nevertheless extremely useful in arousing the mind to various inventions. And this is, that when you look at a wall spotted with stains or with a mixture of stones, if you are about to devise some scene, you will be able to see in it a resemblance to various landscapes adorned with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, wide valleys and various groups of hills; or again you may see battles and figures in action; or strange faces and costumes, and an infinite number of things which you can then reduce into separate and well-drawn forms. And these appear on such walls confusedly, like the sound of bells in whose clanging you may find any name and word you choose to imagine.186

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