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The difference between light and lustre.

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OF PAINTING.

Heigh light or lustre on any object is not situated [necessarily] in the middle of an illuminated object, but moves as and where the eye moves in looking at it.

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

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III: Six books on Light and Shade.
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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
The relations of luminous to illuminated bodies.
136
Experiments on the relation of light and shadow within a room.
137,
138,
139,
140
Light and shadow with regard to the position of the eye.
141,
142,
143,
144,
145
The law of the incidence of light.
146,
147
Gradations of strength in the shadows.
148,
149
light.
150,
151,
152
On the proportion of light and shade.
153,
154
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