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A

TREATISE

ON

PAINTING,

BY

LEONARDO DA VINCI.

FAITHFULLY TRANSLATED FROM THE

ORIGINAL ITALIAN,

AND NOW FIRST DIGESTED UNDER PROPER HEADS,

By JOHN FRANCIS RIGAUD, Esq

ACADEMICIAN OF THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF PAINTING AT LONDON, AND
ALSO OF THE ACADEMIA CLEMENTINA AT BOLOGNA, AND THE
ROYAL ACADEMY AT STOCKHOLM.

Illustrated with twenty-three Copper-plates, and other Figures.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED

A NEW LIFE OF THE AUTHOR,

DRAWN UP FROM AUTHENTIC MATERIALS TILL NOW INACCESSIBLE,

By JOHN SIDNEY HAWKINS, Esq. F.A.S.



Ars est habitus quidam faciendi verâ cum ratione.
ARISTOT. ETHIC. LIB. 6.


London:

PRINTED FOR J. TAYLOR,
AT THE ARCHITECTURAL LIBRARY, HIGH HOLBORN.


M.DCCC.II.