289

General rules.

The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays.

Taken from The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci edited by Jean Paul Richter, 1880.

V * VII
Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
VI: ’Prospettiva de’ colri’ (Perspective of Colour)
General rules.
289,
290,
291
An exceptional case.
292
An experiment.
293
The practice of the prospettiva de colori.
294
The rules of aerial perspective.
295,
296,
297
On the relative density of the atmosphere.
298,
299
On the colour of the atmosphere.
300,
301,
302,
303,
304,
305,
306,
307
. . .