290

General rules.

As to the colours of objects: at long distances no difference is perceptible in the parts in shadow.

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

Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci

VI: ’Prospettiva de’ colri’ (Perspective of Colour)

General rules.

289,

290,

An exceptional case.

An experiment.

The practice of the prospettiva de colori.

The rules of aerial perspective.

295,

296,

On the relative density of the atmosphere.

298,

On the colour of the atmosphere.

300,

301,

302,

303,

304,

305,

306,

. . .