Leonardo da Vinci and his Treatise on Painting

Leonardo da Vinci and his Treatise on Painting

A digital research tool for scholarship on Leonardo da Vinci’s Treatise on Painting. The database includes over forty manuscript copies of the Treatise on Painting, dating from the mid-sixteenth to the mid-seventeenth century, as well as early printed editions of Leonardo’s Treatise on Painting in Italian (1651), French (1651), and English (1721). The digital archive makes it possible to analyze the text and images of these materials systematically, comprehensively, and comparatively.