«Come on, is it not evident?» replies the young man. «Can your ears not hear what mine hear? This painting is a polyphonic composition! Listen to the colours that have been chosen and placed near or far from each other on the canvas. Listen, all of the colours are in the right place, to be able to sing together with the technique of the counterpoint. Can you people hear them? They are certainly not singing a mass or a witty poem. I do not know about you, but I can hear a profane polyphony. A chanson, or rather a carnival song».
«Can you hear the colours?»
It is not the first time that Leonardo astonishes me with his assertions.
«Of course. You can hear the colours as much as you can see the sounds. There is an intimate correspondence between sound and colour. They propagate in the same
