Quotation from: The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

Written by: Leonardo da Vinci


582.


How the ages of man should be depicted: that is, Infancy, Childhood,
Youth, Manhood, Old age, Decrepitude.


[Footnote: No answer is here given to this question, in the original
MS.]


583.


Old men ought to be represented with slow and heavy movements, their
legs bent at the knees, when they stand still, and their feet placed
parallel and apart; bending low with the head leaning forward, and
their arms but little extended.

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