How long does it take to read A Treatise on Painting?
Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael Trichet Du Fresne, Leon Battista Alberti
A Treatise on Painting by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael Trichet Du Fresne, Leon Battista Alberti takes about 4 hours 22 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 4 hours 22 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1651. 238 pages, about 65,450 words.
9 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 7 hours 16 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 4 hours 22 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 44 minutes |
The page count is the median across 56 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is the first pocket-sized edition of Leonardo da Vinci's treatise on painting. The editor was a print maker who owned a print shop and saw the market for an affordable edition that would appeal to artists and art lovers. He reduced the engravings of human figures in movement to line drawings to reduce the cost.
Subjects: Painting, Manuscripts, Facsimiles, Sculpture, Technique, Drawing
