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A Treatise on Painting
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<p><i>A Treatise on Painting</i> (<i>Trattato della pittura</i>) is a collection of <a href="/facts/Leonardo_da_Vinci/E83tcPl2">Leonardo da Vinci</a>'s writings entered in his notebooks under the general heading "On Painting". The manuscripts were begun in Milan while Leonardo was under the service of <a href="/facts/Ludovico_Sforza/Tecy2pI4">Ludovico Sforza</a> and gathered together by his heir <a href="/facts/Francesco_Melzi/RQYphMl4">Francesco Melzi</a>. An abridged version of the treatise was first published in France in 1651. After Melzi's manuscript was rediscovered in the <a href="/facts/Vatican_Library/RNwpW2hl">Vatican Library</a>, the treatise was published in its modern form in 1817. </p>