Leonardo da Vinci - No. 70

This Talk is a review of the basic difference between painting “realistically” by values and painting by line. Although Leonardo was the first real scientist elucidating the visual data his way of working was primarily from the outline of objects. Velasquez and Vermeer between them set the visual to work more or less on its own terms without the overvalued reliance on knowledge typical of the Renaissance man. Comparison is fascinating and crucial.

In response to Sue

QUESTIONS: I bought a painting of Da Vinci a few weeks ago and I noticed that in his image The Virgin and Child with St Anne and St John the Baptist he was using outline to draw the foot of the lady on my left. Can you please explain to us why? SUE