This book traces the story of the world's greatest treatise on
painting - Leonardo Da Vinci's "Treatise of Painting". It combines an
extensive body of literature about the Treatise with original research
to offer a unique perspective on: - Its origins, and history of how it
survived the dispersal of manuscripts; - Its contents, their
significance and how Leonardo developed his Renaissance Theory of Art; -
The development of both the abridged and complete printed editions; -
How the printed editions have influenced treatises and art history
throughout Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, and America from the
Seventeenth to the Twentieth Centuries.