296

The rules of aerial perspective.

The medium lying between the eye and the object seen, tinges that object with its colour, as the blueness of the atmosphere makes the distant mountains appear blue and red glass makes objects seen beyond it, look red. The light shed round them by the stars is obscured by the darkness of the night which lies between the eye and the radiant light of the stars.

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
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