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Different principles and plans of treatment.

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OF PAINTING.

As regards all visible objects 3 things must be considered. These are the position of the eye which sees: that of the object seen [with regard] to the light, and the position of the light which illuminates the object, b is the eye, a the object seen, c the light, a is the eye, b the illuminating body, c is the illuminated object.

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

114 * 116
II * IV
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Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
III: Six books on Light and Shade.
Prolegomena.
110
Scheme of the books on Light and shade.
111
Different principles and plans of treatment.
112,
113,
114,
115,
116
Different sorts of light.
117,
118
Definition of the nature of shadows.
119,
120,
121,
122
Of the various kinds of shadows..
123,
124,
125
Of the various kinds of light.
126,
127
General remarks.
128,
129
On the nature of light.
130,
131
The difference between light and lustre.
132,
133,
134,
135
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