A Treatise on Painting
by Leonardo da Vinci, translated by John Francis Rigaud
How a Painter may become universal
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Chap. CLXXX.How a Painter may become universal.

The painter who wishes to be universal, and please a variety of judges, must unite in the same composition, objects susceptible of great force in the shadows, and great sweetness in the management of them; accounting, however, in every instance, for such boldness and softenings.