The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies everything placed in front of it without understanding.
— Leonardo da Vinci Early Modern

Polymath, artist, inventor, scientist

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Treatise on Painting

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c. 1490s

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Strange & Unusual

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/64510/64510-h/64510-h.htm

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