268

other.

The surface of every opaque body is affected by the colour of the objects surrounding it. But this effect will be strong or weak in proportion as those objects are more or less remote and more or less strongly [coloured].

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

IV * VI
Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
V: Theory of colours.
other.
263,
264,
265,
266,
267,
268,
269,
270,
271
Combination of different colours in cast shadows.
272
The effect of colours in the camera obscura.
273,
274
On the colours of derived shadows.
275,
276
On the nature of colours.
277,
278
On gradations in the depth of colours.
279,
280
On the reflection of colours.
281,
282,
283
On the use of dark and light colours in painting.
284,
285,
286
On the colours of the rainbow.
287,
288
. . .