The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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The shaded and illuminated sides of opaque objects will display the  
same proportion of light and darkness as their objects [Footnote 6:  
The meaning of obbietti (objects) is explained in no 153, lines  
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-4.--Between the title-line and the next there is, in the  
original, a small diagram representing a circle described round a  
square.].  
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55.  
OF PAINTING.  
The outlines and form of any part of a body in light and shade are  
indistinct in the shadows and in the high lights; but in the  
portions between the light and the shadows they are highly  
conspicuous.  
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56.  
OF PAINTING.  
Among objects in various degrees of shade, when the light proceeds  
from a single source, there will be the same proportion in their  
shadows as in the natural diminution of the light and the same must  
be understood of the degrees of light.  
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