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Tempera and oil on paper.

I shall not fail to include among these precepts a new discovery, an aid to reflection, which, although it seems a small thing and almost laughable, nevertheless is very useful in stimulating the mind to various discoveries. This is: look at walls splashed with a number of stains or stones of various mixed colors. If you have to invent some scene, you can see there resemblances to a number of landscapes, adorned in various ways with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, wide valleys and hills. Moreover, you can see various battles, the rapid actions of figures, strange expressions on faces, costumes, and an infinite number of things, which you can reduce to good integrated form. This happens thus on walls and varicolored stone, as in the sound of bells, in whose pealing you can find every word and name you can imagine....for in confused things the mind is aroused to new discoveries.
-Leonardo DaVinci, Trattato della pittura

Description

Tempera and oil on paper.

I shall not fail to include among these precepts a new discovery, an aid to reflection, which, although it seems a small thing and almost laughable, nevertheless is very useful in stimulating the mind to various discoveries. This is: look at walls splashed with a number of stains or stones of various mixed colors. If you have to invent some scene, you can see there resemblances to a number of landscapes, adorned in various ways with mountains, rivers, rocks, trees, plains, wide valleys and hills. Moreover, you can see various battles, the rapid actions of figures, strange expressions on faces, costumes, and an infinite number of things, which you can reduce to good integrated form. This happens thus on walls and varicolored stone, as in the sound of bells, in whose pealing you can find every word and name you can imagine....for in confused things the mind is aroused to new discoveries.
-Leonardo DaVinci, Trattato della pittura