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The gradations of shade and colour in leaves.

OF DARK LEAVES IN FRONT OF TRANSPARENT ONES.

When the leaves are interposed between the light and the eye, then that which is nearest to the eye will be the darkest, and the most distant will be the lightest, not being seen against the atmosphere; and this is seen in the leaves which are away from the centre of the tree, that is towards the light.

[Footnote: See Pl. XXVIII, No. 2, the lower sketch.]

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

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci

VIII: Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting.

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413,

414,

415,

416,

417,

418,

Light on branches and leaves.

420,

421,

The proportions of light and shade in a leaf.

423,

424,

425,

Of the transparency of leaves.

427,

428,

The gradations of shade and colour in leaves.

430,

431,

432,

433,

A classification of trees according to their colours.

The proportions of light and shade in trees.

436,

437,

438,

439,

of the spectator.

441,

442,

The effects of morning light.

444,

445,

446,

447,

The effects of midday light.

The appearance of trees in the distance.

450,

The cast shadow of trees.

Light and shade on groups of trees.

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