A Treatise on Painting The demand by artists and

The demand by artists and craftspeople for visually exciting designs has created renewed interest in traditional Japanese motifs which are ideal for modern decorative and graphic needs

he painstakingly reproduced vivid accounts he heard from their very lips

Since no costume was complete without accessories

and his life as a seventeenth-century navigator aboard pirate and privateering ships is brilliantly detailed in his journal

including "Visions of the Night

A Treatise on Painting The demand by artists andLeonardo da Vinci's written observations about painting rank among the most remarkable from any era. Never edited by the author himself into a single coherent book, these writings were compiled many years after Leonardo's death into the principal repository of his practical thoughts on the techniques of drawing and painting. A Treatise on Painting begins with precise instructions on drawing the human body and then moves on to techniques of rendering