The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci Complete


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circumstances of the story. Thirdly, whether the figures are  
actively intent on their particular business.  
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55.  
OF THE TREATMENT OF THE LIGHTS.  
First give a general shadow to the whole of that extended part which  
is away from the light. Then put in the half shadows and the strong  
shadows, comparing them with each other and, in the same way give  
the extended light in half tint, afterwards adding the half lights  
and the high lights, likewise comparing them together.  
The distribution of light and shade (556-559)  
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56.  
OF SHADOWS ON BODIES.  
When you represent the dark shadows in bodies in light and shade,  
always show the cause of the shadow, and the same with reflections;  
because the dark shadows are produced by dark objects and the  
reflections by objects only moderately lighted, that is with  
diminished light. And there is the same proportion between the  
highly lighted part of a body and the part lighted by a reflection  
as between the origin of the lights on the body and the origin of  
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