Excerpt from Essays in Fresco Leonardo defines the two chief objects of the painter's art to be to depict first man and then the intention of his soul; the former he characterised as easy, the latter as hard and this latter was too complex to admit of interpretation by a process so summary as that of painting in fresco. Leonardo himself employed other methods in his two great mural paintings, with sequel of disaster in loss of power to withstand the ravages of time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds ...
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Excerpt from Essays in Fresco Leonardo defines the two chief objects of the painter's art to be to depict first man and then the intention of his soul; the former he characterised as easy, the latter as hard and this latter was too complex to admit of interpretation by a process so summary as that of painting in fresco. Leonardo himself employed other methods in his two great mural paintings, with sequel of disaster in loss of power to withstand the ravages of time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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