LEONARDO

DA VINCI

ON PAINTING original: "DELLA PITTVRA". This volume is the first published collection of Leonardo's extensive notes on art theory, compiled long after his death from various manuscripts.

R. Lochon engraved this original: "sculp." (abbreviation for the Latin sculpsit). René Lochon was a 17th-century French engraver tasked with creating the portrait of Leonardo for this prestigious edition.