289

General rules.

The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.

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

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci

VI: ’Prospettiva de’ colri’ (Perspective of Colour)

General rules.

289,

290,

An exceptional case.

An experiment.

The practice of the prospettiva de colori.

The rules of aerial perspective.

295,

296,

On the relative density of the atmosphere.

298,

On the colour of the atmosphere.

300,

301,

302,

303,

304,

305,

306,

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