|
In fact painting isadorned with infinite possibilities which sculpture cannot
command. The wave of the sea at Piombino is all foaming water.
607 may be
regarded as a preliminary sketch forthis one. Both have been lost in some
wholly inexplicable manner.
XXXIV we see Wind-gods in thesky, corresponding to
the allusion to Aeolus in No. THAT PAINTING SURPASSES ALL HUMAN WORKS BY THE
SUBTLE CONSIDERATIONSBELONGING TO IT. Chalk dissolves in wine and in vinegar or
in aqua fortis and can berecombined with gum.
You can make a fine ochre by the
same method as you use to makewhite. ) should be of Venus and Jupiter impasted
over (?
Thewater in the eddies revolves more swiftly in proportion as it
isnearer to their centre. 36:_Qua mi ricordo della mirabile discritione del
Diluuio delloautore.
LVI--we find studies for the episode of the Standard. An
old copy ofthe last named drawing by a pupil of Leonardo is in MS. Matthew, the
fourth figure on Christs left hand--see Pl.
HE WHO DESPISES PAINTING LOVES
NEITHER PHILOSOPHY NOR NATURE. Mercury with Jupiter and Venus,--a paste made of
these must becorrected by the mould (? VIII of the GrosvenorGallery Publication
in_ 1878.
The painter strives and competes with nature.
Thewater in the eddies
revolves more swiftly in proportion as it isnearer to their centre. _ 21
_and_36_)--the second was reproduced on Pl.
Both have been lost in some wholly
inexplicable manner. Inthe drawing in Indian ink given on Pl. RAVAISSONS
reading varies from mine in the followingpassages:1.
Compare with it the
facsimile of the rough copy of Leonardos letterto Ludovico il Moro in Vol.
|
