The Drawings of Leonardo Da Vinci

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This volume includes practically all the drawings which have any interest for the student of Leonardo da Vinci as a painter or sculptor, which have an aesthetic and not a purely scientific or mechanical interest, as well as a small selection of drawings of the latter sort. The manuscripts are full of sketches, the greater part of them diagrammatic but occasionally of positive interest and beauty, apart from the text which they explain. This book was originally planned, and about two-thirds of the photographs collected, by Sir Kenneth Clark. With his approval, the work was completed by Mr. A. E. Popham, formerly Keeper of Prints and Drawings, British Museum. It is the most comprehensive collection of Leonardo da Vinci's drawings to be published to date.