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On the lighting of the background.

OF THE BACKGROUNDS FOR PAINTED FIGURES.

The ground which surrounds the forms of any object you paint should be darker than the high lights of those figures, and lighter than their shadowed part: &c.

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

561 * 563
VII * X
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545,
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571,
572
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573
Of the light on the face.
574,
575,
576
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577,
578,
579,
580,
581
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582
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