Use of the brush and wash in Leonardo da Vinci Study of drapery and Claude Lorrain's Tiber

Use of the brush and wash in Leonardo da Vinci Study of drapery and Claude Lorrain's Tiber

Introduction

Born in the small Tuscan hilltown of Vinci, Leonardo was the illegitimate son of a notary and a local peasant girl.  His early school education did not prepare him for his later career as author of treatises, and he seems to have attained only a cursory knowledge of Latin, the language of most scientific texts and the "lingua franca" among the Humanists who comprised the intellectual elite ...