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The distribution of light and shade.

OF LIGHTS AND SHADOWS.

I must remind you to take care that every portion of a body, and every smallest detail which is ever so little in relief, must be given its proper importance as to light and shade.

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

556 * 558
VII * X
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VIII: Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting.
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537
The apparent size of figures in a picture.
538,
539
spectator.
540,
541,
542,
543,
544,
545,
546,
547
Gradations of light and shade.
548
On the choice of light for a picture.
549,
550,
551,
552,
553,
554,
555
The distribution of light and shade.
556,
557,
558,
559
The juxtaposition of light and shade.
560,
561
On the lighting of the background.
562,
563,
564,
565
On the lighting of white objects.
566
The methods of aerial.
567,
568,
569,
570
Of sketching figures and portraits.
571,
572
The position of the head.
573
Of the light on the face.
574,
575,
576
General suggestions for historical pictures.
577
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