What to read after A Treatise on Painting?

Learn how to draw and paint from the master himself! A Treatise on Painting is a selection of Leonardo da Vinci's manuscripts entered in his notebooks under the general heading "On Painting." The documents collected by Francesco Melzi sometime before 1542 were first printed in Italian and French as "Trattato Della Pittura" by Raffaello du Fresne in 1651. The purpose of the treatise was to demonstrate that painting was a science. Leonardo's enthusiastic research of expression and character shows in his observation of laughing and weeping. About which he notes that the only difference between the two emotions regarding the "motion of the features" (facial) is "the ruffling of the brows, which is added in weeping, but more elevated and extended in laughing." Leonardo da Vinci Personal life, the list of works, science, and inventions: Paintings: Medusa The Annunciation The Madonna of the Carnation The Baptism of Christ Ginevra de' Benci Benois Madonna St. Jerome in the Wilderness The Adoration of the Magi Madonna Litta The Virgin of the Rocks Portrait of a Musician Lady with an Ermine La Belle Ferronniere Salvator Mundi Madonna of the Yarnwinder The Virgin and Child with St. Anne Head of a Woman (La Scapigliata) Mona Lisa St. John the Baptist Leda and the Swan Works on walls The Battle of Anghiari The Last Supper Sala delle Asse Sculptures Rearing Horse and Mounted Warrior Sforza monument (unexecuted) Horse and Rider Works on paper Portrait of a Young Fiancee Vitruvian Man The Virgin and Child with St Anne St John the Baptist Studies of the Fetus in the Womb Self-portrait Manuscripts Codex Atlanticus Codex Arundel Codex Madrid Codex on the Flight of Birds Codex Urbinas Codex Leicester Codex Trivulzianus Other projects De divina proportione Leonardo's fighting vehicle Architonnerre Leonardo's crossbow Leonardo's robot Viola organista Leonardo's self-propelled cart Leonardeschi Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio Cesare da Sesto Giampietrino Giovanni Agostino da Lodi Bernardino Luini Cesare Magni Marco d'Oggiono Francesco Melzi Giovanni Ambrogio de Predis Salai Andrea Solari Posthumous fame Cultural references Mona Lisa replicas and reinterpretations Things named after Leonardo