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What did [Pacioli] see over Leonardo’s shoulder?
O sessile repetition and variation: when Leonardo developed an interest, he would gnaw away at it for years whether it seemed useful or not.
— May 30, 2025 03:48PM
O sessile repetition and variation: when Leonardo developed an interest, he would gnaw away at it for years whether it seemed useful or not.
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This confident, unambiguous title suits the book, which expresses Michael's interior life more honestly and completely than many autobiographies: his intellectual development, his spiritual needs, the career of which he could justly be proud….
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zibaldone -- "una insalata di piu herbe" -- an early commonplace book
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Ch. 3 summary -- "The raw materials of the commercial revolution had sparked an artistic revolution."
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All of these material advantages would have naturally led to the sketchbook's next great benefit: a step change in the quality of preparation that an artist could put into a work ...
The sketchbook also allowed an artist to develop their own style and repertoire, an additional memory bank that collected a body of material to refer to at a later date.
— May 27, 2025 09:35AM
The sketchbook also allowed an artist to develop their own style and repertoire, an additional memory bank that collected a body of material to refer to at a later date.
