Painting is poetry which is seen and not heard, and poetry is a painting which is heard but not seen.

A pittura è una poesìa che si vede , e non si sente , e la poesìa è una pittura che si sente , e non si vede .

Leonardo da Vinci

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Topic

Poetry Painting Art

Author

Leonardo da Vinci

Source

A Treatise on Painting

Medium

Personal journal

Language

Italian

Time

1519 1510s 16th century

Era

European Renaissance

Occupation

Painter Artist

From

Italy Europe

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Original Citation

Da Vinci, Leonard. Tratto della pittura. 1632.

Current Citation

Da Vinci, Leonardo. Leonardo on Painting. Translated by Martin Kemp and Margaret Walker. Edited by Martin Kemp. Yale UP, 2001.

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