A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 131

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A Treatise on Painting
by Leonardo da Vinci, translated by John Francis Rigaud
Of sketching Histories and Figures
4006204A Treatise on Painting — Of sketching Histories and FiguresJohn Francis RigaudLeonardo da Vinci

Chap. CXXXI.Of sketching Histories and Figures.

Sketches of historical subjects must be slight, attending only to the situation of the figures, without regard to the finishing of particular members, which may be done afterwards at leisure, when the mind is so disposed.