item: #1 of 6 id: 46915 author: Leonardo, da Vinci title: A Treatise on Painting date: None words: 72614 flesch: 77 summary: The nose keeps it off from great part of the mouth, and the chin from the neck, and such other parts. From this effect it often happens that a high tower, seen at a great distance, will appear broad at top, and narrow at bottom; because the thin air towards the top does not prevent the angles on the sides and other different parts of the tower from being seen, as the thick air does at bottom. keywords: /chap; /the/; air; bodies; body; colour; dark; degree; distance; drawing; eye; figures; footnote; form; fresne; ground; head; high; illustration; leonardo; light; line; man; manner; members; men; milan; motion; muscles; natural; nature; objects; painter; painting; parts; perspective; picture; plate; point; proportion; said; shadows; subject; sun; surface; time; variety; vasari; venturi; vinci; weight; white; work cache: 46915.txt plain text: 46915.txt item: #2 of 6 id: 47902 author: Merezhkovsky, Dmitry Sergeyevich title: The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, the Forerunner date: None words: 169557 flesch: 81 summary: At last, however, he said: 'Antonio, they tell me Messer Leonardo, your kinsman, takes scholars into his painting-room. 'If you would lose your soul, Giovanni, then go to Messer Leonardo!' 'What? keywords: age; air; artist; astro; beatrice; beauty; black; blood; blue; body; boltraffio; book; boy; calm; cassandra; castle; cesare; child; children; christ; church; court; crowd; cæsar; dark; day; days; dead; death; devil; door; duchess; duke; earth; evening; eyes; face; faith; father; fear; feet; fire; florence; florentine; fly; fra; francesco; french; friend; giovanni; god; gold; golden; good; great; hair; half; hand; head; heart; heaven; holy; house; human; king; knowledge; lay; leave; left; leonardo; leonardo da; life; lips; look; lord; love; low; lucrezia; ludovico; machiavelli; madonna; man; marco; master; men; messer leonardo; milan; moment; money; monk; monna; morning; moro; mother; nature; nay; new; niccolò; night; painter; pale; people; picture; place; pope; red; rome; room; rose; round; savonarola; saw; silence; sky; smile; son; soul; speak; stone; sun; tell; thee; things; thought; thy; time; tis; town; truth; vinci; voice; water; way; white; wind; wine; wings; woman; words; work; world; years cache: 47902.txt plain text: 47902.txt item: #3 of 6 id: 4998 author: Leonardo, da Vinci title: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1 date: None words: 108302 flesch: 76 summary: [Footnote: 1--10 have already been published by _Amoretti_ in _Memorie Storiche_ cap. But in the shadow at _o keywords: air; angle; arm; atmosphere; b c; background; blue; bodies; body; branches; cast; centre; colour; compare; dark; darkness; diagram; distance; drawing; eye; falls; figure; find; footnote; form; half; hand; head; images; leaves; left; length; leonardo; light; lines; look; man; men; middle; nature; object; opposite; original; painter; painting; parts; passage; perspective; picture; place; point; proportion; pyramid; rays; reason; second; shade; shadow; size; sketch; space; sun; surface; text; thing; time; trees; wall; water; way; white; window; work cache: 4998.txt plain text: 4998.txt item: #4 of 6 id: 4999 author: Leonardo, da Vinci title: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 2 date: None words: 142473 flesch: 78 summary: _ Leonardo can only mean here the citadel of Cairo on the Mokattam hills.] sulla Libreria-Visconteo-Sforzesca del Castello di Pavia ... per cura di_ G. D'A., _Milano 1879. keywords: air; angles; animals; arch; arno; base; beginning; birds; bodies; body; bones; book; braccia; bramante; buildings; canal; cast; cause; centre; chapels; che; church; circle; close; columns; come; compare; contrary; course; cut; date; day; dead; death; del; della; di leonardo; distance; dome; doubt; drawing; duc; earth; east; elements; end; equal; eye; fall; feet; figure; fire; florence; flow; food; footnote; form; francesco; general; giovanni; good; half; hand; head; high; horse; human; iii; inside; lake; land; left; length; leonardo; letter; level; life; light; lines; lire; making; man; master; means; mediterranean; men; messer; middle; milan; miles; moon; motion; mountains; muscles; nature; nel; non; north; nos; notes; number; observations; ocean; opposite; order; original; page; parts; passage; place; plan; point; portion; present; proportion; rays; reason; rise; rivers; rome; round; salai; salt; san; sea; seas; second; section; seeing; sense; shells; sides; size; sketch; sketches; soldi; soul; south; spirit; square; stones; studies; style; sun; surface; text; thickness; things; time; vinci; vol; wall; water; waves; way; weight; west; words; work; world; year cache: 4999.txt plain text: 4999.txt item: #5 of 6 id: 6306 author: Hubbard, Elbert title: Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists date: None words: 74871 flesch: 76 summary: Instances can be cited of great men who were loved and nurtured and ministered to by their stepmothers. To picture great men you must be a great man. keywords: abbey; art; artist; artistic; beauty; book; botticelli; boy; cellini; children; church; corot; day; days; death; eyes; face; fact; family; father; gainsborough; genius; gian; god; good; hair; hand; head; heart; home; house; joy; king; leonardo; life; like; little; look; love; man; master; men; michelangelo; mother; nature; new; order; paint; painter; painting; people; perugino; pictures; place; pope; power; raphael; right; rome; set; son; soul; stand; studio; things; thorwaldsen; thought; time; velasquez; way; whistler; white; wife; woman; work; world; years; young cache: 6306.txt plain text: 6306.txt item: #6 of 6 id: 7785 author: Brockwell, Maurice W. title: Leonardo Da Vinci date: None words: 6904 flesch: 64 summary: CONTENTS His Birth His Early Training His Early Works First Visit to Milan In the East Back in Milan The Virgin of the Rocks The Last Supper The Court of Milan Leonardo Leaves Milan Mona Lisa Battle of Anghiari Again in Milan In Rome In France His Death His Art His Mind His Maxims His Spell His Descendants LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Plate I. Mona Lisa In the Louvre II. This picture was painted in Milan about 1495 by Ambrogio da Predis under the supervision and guidance of Leonardo da Vinci, the essential features of the composition being borrowed from the earlier Vierge aux Rochers, now in the Louvre.] keywords: christ; gallery; leonardo; louvre; ludovico; milan; painting; picture; plate; portrait; work; years cache: 7785.txt plain text: 7785.txt