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transparent medium lying between the object and the eye; and among
colours of a similar character the second will be of the same tone
as the first, and this is caused by the increased thickness of the
colour of the medium lying between the object and the eye.
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07. OF PAINTING.
Of various colours which are none of them blue that which at a great
distance will look bluest is the nearest to black; and so,
conversely, the colour which is least like black will at a great
distance best preserve its own colour.
Hence the green of fields will assume a bluer hue than yellow or
white will, and conversely yellow or white will change less than
green, and red still less.
VII.
On the Proportions and on the Movements of the Human Figure.
Leonardo's researches on the proportions and movements of the human
figure must have been for the most part completed and written before
the year 1498; for LUCA PACIOLO writes, in the dedication to
Ludovico il Moro, of his book Divina Proportione, which was
published in that year: "Leonardo da venci ... hauedo gia co tutta
diligetia al degno libro de pictura e movimenti humani posto fine".
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