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Leonardo da Vinci | Della prospettiva lineare

Trattato della Pittura - Parte terza | Capitoli 433-465


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433. Pittura e sua membrificazione e componitori.
434. Pittura e sua definizione.
435. Pittura a lume universale.
436. De' campi proporzionati ai corpi che in essi campeggiano, e prima delle superficie piane d'uniforme colore.
437. Pittura: di figura e corpo.
438. Pittura: mancherà prima di notizia la parte di quel corpo che sarà di minor quantità.
439. Perché una medesima campagna si dimostra alcuna volta maggiore o minore ch'essa non è.
440. Pittura.
441. Delle città ed altre cose vedute all'aria grossa.
442. De' raggi solari che penetrano gli spiracoli de' nuvoli.
443. Delle cose che l'occhio vede sotto sé miste infra nebbia ed aria grossa.
444. Degli edifici veduti nell'aria grossa.
445. Della cosa che si mostra da lontano.


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Julian Onderdonk | Impressionist painter

Julian Onderdonk (1882-1922) was a Texan Impressionist painter, often called "the father of Texas painting".
President George W. Bush decorated the Oval Office with three of Onderdonk's paintings.
The Dallas Museum of Art has several rooms dedicated exclusively to Onderdonk's work. His art studio currently resides on the grounds of the Witte Museum.

Early years

Julian Onderdonk was born in San Antonio, Texas, to Robert Jenkins Onderdonk, a painter, and Emily Gould Onderdonk. He was the brother of Eleanor Onderdonk, also a prominent Texas painter, sculptor, and art administrator. His grandfather Henry Onderdonk was the Headmaster of Saint James School in Maryland, from which Julian's father Robert graduated.


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Yuri Krotov, 1964 | Landscapes

Yuri Krotov / Юрий Кротов was born in Grivenskaya Cossack Settlement, Krasnodar Territory, located close to the Azov Sea. At the age of 8 he met a local painter G.A. Polugaev who became his mentor.
With Polugaev, Krotov traveled to Moscow and enrolled in Moscow High School of Art under the Surikov Art Institute.
After high school he served in the Soviet Army for 2 years before attending the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov.
His style of impressionist painting blossomed on trips to France, Spain, Italy, Great Britain, Monaco and other European countries.


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Vlaho Bukovac | Post-Impressionist painter

Vlaho Bukovac (1855-1922) was born in Cavtat, near Dubrovnik. He showed inclination to drawing in his early childhood, but because of his family's poverty he could not continue his education.
At the age of eleven his uncle took him to the United States, where he spent four hard years. His uncle soon died.
In 1871, he returned to Dubrovnik and embarked as an apprentice on a merchant ship that sailed on regular line Istanbul- Odessa-Liverpool.
In 1873 he went to Latin America, where he worked as a letter drawer in a coach factory in Peru. Three years later he returned to Cavtat.
He found a sponsor in the person of Medo Pucic, a poet who recommended him to the archbishop Strossmayer, a very famous and influential Croatian at that time.


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Leonardo da Vinci | Della figura che va contro il vento

Trattato della Pittura - Parte terza | Capitoli 398-432


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398. Discorso sopra il pratico.
399. Della pratica cercata con gran sollecitudine dal pittore.
400. Del giudicare il pittore le sue opere e quelle d'altrui.
401. Del giudicare il pittore la sua pittura.
402. Come lo specchio è il maestro de' pittori.
403. Come si deve conoscere una buona pittura e che qualità deve avere per essere buona.
404. Come la vera pittura stia nella superficie dello specchio piano.
405. Qual pittura è piú laudabile.
406. Qual è il primo obietto intenzionale del pittore.