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The Da Vinci Notes

Da Vinci Notes 06: The Last Supper, Perspective on a Wall

A painted room can be true from one point only, and the friars sit along sixty braccia of floor. I drive a nail into the head of Christ and snap the strings.

How Leonardo set the Last Supper's vanishing point high above the friars, drew its room with a nail and strings, and why his dry-wall paint began to fail.

Leonardo da Vinci November 8, 2026 28 min

#Leonardo da Vinci #Da Vinci Notes #Last Supper #Perspective #Santa Maria delle Grazie #Renaissance painting #History of art
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Da Vinci Notes 03: Aerial Perspective and the Blue of the Sky

Why the far hills turn blue and then pale, why dry smoke is blue before black velvet and ashen before linen, and what I saw above me on Monboso.

Leonardo's aerial perspective: five times as far, five times bluer, the smoke and velvet test, the Codex Leicester blue sky, and what Tyndall and Rayleigh found.

Leonardo da Vinci November 8, 2026 28 min

#Leonardo da Vinci #Da Vinci Notes #Aerial perspective #Optics #Rayleigh scattering #Painting #History of science
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Da Vinci Notes 02: Linear Perspective and the Pyramid of Sight

The glass, the pyramid of lines and the point of diminution, from Brunelleschi's panel to my own first rule, which was wrong.

Leonardo on linear perspective: the pyramid of sight and the pane of glass, why twice the distance looks half as tall, and the error in his first rule.

Leonardo da Vinci November 8, 2026 31 min

#Leonardo da Vinci #Da Vinci Notes #Perspective #Optics #Renaissance #History of science #Geometry