Leonardo's Perspective

Leonardo da Vinci's La Scapigliata (1500)

Leonardo da Vinci believed that sight is our most important sense.  He believed that "reality in an absolute sense was inaccessible and that humans could only know it through its changing images.  He considered the eyes the most vital organs and sight the most essential function.  Better to be deaf than blind, he argued, because through the eyes individuals could grasp reality most directly and profoundly"  (Gardner 458).