The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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reflected] colour of the object that may be opposite to it.  
EXAMPLE.  
If you place a spherical body between various objects that is to say  
with [direct] sunlight on one side of it, and on the other a wall  
illuminated by the sun, which wall may be green or of any other  
colour, while the surface on which it is placed may be red, and the  
two lateral sides are in shadow, you will see that the natural  
colour of that body will assume something of the hue reflected from  
those objects. The strongest will be [given by] the luminous body;  
the second by the illuminated wall, the third by the shadows. There  
will still be a portion which will take a tint from the colour of  
the edges.  
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68.  
The surface of every opaque body is affected by the colour of the  
objects surrounding it. But this effect will be strong or weak in  
proportion as those objects are more or less remote and more or less  
strongly [coloured].  
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69.  
OF PAINTING.  
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