A Treatise on Painting action and adventure

action and adventure

this book represents the distillation of Bammes's insights and ideas

Thirty-two full-page illustrations offer compelling images of Buddha and the Dragon

philosophical revelations

the blind fear of mobs and the intellectual curiosity of learned men

A Treatise on Painting action and adventureLeonardo da Vinci's written observations about painting rank among the most remarkable from any era. Never edited by the author himself into a single coherent book, these writings were compiled many years after Leonardo's death into the principal repository of his practical thoughts on the techniques of drawing and painting. A Treatise on Painting begins with precise instructions on drawing the human body and then moves on to techniques of rendering