The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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in the evening it may be in the fashion of a chest which, when shut  
up, may serve the purpose of a bench.  
[Footnote: See Pl. XXXI, No. 2. In this plate the lines have  
unfortunately lost their sharpness, for the accidental loss of the  
negative has necessitated a reproduction from a positive. But having  
formerly published this sketch by another process, in VON LUTZOW'S  
Zeitschrift fur bildende Kunst (Vol. XVII, pg. 13) I have  
reproduced it here in the text. The sharpness of the outline in the  
original sketch is here preserved but it gives it from the reversed  
side.]  
On the best light for painting (513-520).  
5
13.  
Which light is best for drawing from nature; whether high or low, or  
large or small, or strong and broad, or strong and small, or broad  
and weak or small and weak?  
[Footnote: The question here put is unanswered in the original MS.]  
5
14.  
OF THE QUALITY OF THE LIGHT.  
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