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On the best light for painting.

PAINTING.

The luminous air which enters by passing through orifices in walls into dark rooms will render the place less dark in proportion as the opening cuts into the walls which surround and cover in the pavement.

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

516 * 518
VII * X
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VIII: Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting.
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497
On the productive power of minor artists.
498,
499,
500,
501
A caution against one-sided study.
502
How to acquire universality.
503,
504,
505,
506
Useful games and exercises.
507,
508
On the size of the studio.
509
On the construction of windows.
510,
511,
512
On the best light for painting.
513,
514,
515,
516,
517,
518,
519,
520
On various helps in preparing a picture.
521,
522,
523,
524,
525,
526,
527,
528,
529,
530
On the management of works.
531,
532
On the limitations of painting.
533,
534,
535
On the choice of a position.
536,
537
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