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“Leonardo
himself did not believe that one body alone could signify perfectly without outside
assistance, and knew that his natural figure of Man needed to be completed and
supplemented with artificial techniques of the body. ...he advised artists to imitate the
sign language of the deaf: The forms of men must have attitudes appropriate to the
activities that they engage in, so that when you see them you will understand what they
think or say." [Leonardo da Vinci, Treatise on Painting, vol. 1, trans. Philip MacMahon,
(Princeton:Princeton University Press, 1965) |