Further Reading
- Farago, Claire J., “On Leonardo da Vinci's Defense of Painting against Poetry and Music and the Grounding of Aesthetic Experience,” Italian Culture IX (1991): 153-70. (Examines how Leonardo's argument for painting as a superior art form affects modern views concerning the “authority of word and image.”)
- Panofsky, Erwin, “The History of the Manuscript,” in The Codex Huygens and Leonardo Da Vinci's Art Theory: The Pierpont Morgan Library Codex M. A. 1139, pp. 9-13. London: The Warburg Institute, 1940. Reprint. Nendlen, Liechtenstein: Kraus Reprint, 1968. (Discusses the textual history of the Codex Huygens, which consists of a compilation of Leonardo's notes on the form and structure of the human body, as well as theories on light and shade, and perspective.)
- Viglionese, Paschal C., “Leonardo and the Nature of Writing: A Page from His Notebooks,” Canadian Journal of Italian Studies XV, No. 44 (1992): 11-16. (Attempts to show that despite Leonardo's emphasis on painting over poetry, an example from his notes shows that Leonardo conceived of writing, like painting, as a visual art.)
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