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Truly marvellous and celestial was Leonardo, the son of Ser Piero da Vinci; and in learning and in the rudiments of letters he would have made great proficience, if he had not been so variable and unstable, for he set himself to learn many things, and then, after having begun them, abandoned them. Thus, in arithmetic, during the few months that he studied it, he made so much progress, that, by continually suggesting doubts and difficulties to the master who was teaching him, he would very often bewilder him. He gave some little attention to music, and quickly resolved to learn to play the lyre, as one who had by nature a spirit most lofty and full of refinement: wherefore he sang divinely to that instrument, improvising upon it. Nevertheless, although he occupied himself with such a variety of things, he never ceased drawing and working in relief, pursuits which suited his fancy more than any other. -- Vasari's 'Lives of the Artists' ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ air - angle - animals - arch - arm - arrangement - atmosphere - background - base - being - better - birds - black - blue - body - bones - book - branches - buildings - centre - church - circle - clouds - colour - compare - connection - contrary - copy - course - darkness - day - death - depth - derived - diagram - direction - distance - doubt - drawing - earth - east - edges - effect - equal - eye - faces - fact - far - figure - find - fire - first - florence - flow - form - general - glass - greatest - green - ground - half - hand - head - height - horse - how - human - illuminated - image - infinite - inside - knowledge - leaf - least - leaves - leg - length - leonardo - letter - level - life - light - limbs - line - lire - look - luminous - mass - master - milan - mind - mirror - moon - motion - mountains - mouth - muscles - nature - near - new - night - note - number - oil - old - opaque - open - opposite - order - painting - paper - perspective - picture - plan - plane - point - position - proportion - prove - pupil - pyramid - quantity - rays - reason - red - reflected - represent - river - round - salt - sea - second - sense - shadow - shells - sight - single - sketch - sky - smoke - south - spot - square - straight - studies - sun - surface - thickness - third - time - transparent - trees - true - davinci - wall - water - waves - weight - west - what - whence - where - why - width - wind - work - world - writing - yellow