TREATISE

ON PAINTING

LEONARDO DA VINCI

BASED ON THE VATICAN CODEX URBINAS 1270

The Codex Urbinas 1270 is the primary source for Leonardo's notes on painting, compiled after his death by his pupil Francesco Melzi.

WITH A PREFACE

MARCO TABARRINI

PRECEDED

BY THE LIFE OF LEONARDO WRITTEN BY GIORGIO VASARI

Giorgio Vasari was a 16th-century artist and biographer whose "Lives of the Artists" formed the foundation of art history.

WITH NEW NOTES AND COMMENTARY

GAETANO MILANESI

Milanesi was a renowned 19th-century scholar famous for his rigorous archival research into Renaissance artists.

AND ADORNED WITH THE AUTOGRAPH PORTRAIT OF LEONARDO

AND WITH 265 ENGRAVINGS

ROME

COOPERATIVE PUBLISHING UNION

1890

original: "M · DCCC · XC"

The printer's emblem depicts a female figure standing by a tree with the inscription "WITH TIME" original: "COL TEMPO", suggesting that wisdom and truth are revealed through the passage of time.