623

On the preparation and use of colours.

The shadow will be burnt ,terra-verte’.

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

VII * X
Notebooks of Leonoardo da Vinci
VIII: Botany for Painters and Elements of Landscape Painting.
. . .
603
Of depicting night-scenes.
604
Of depicting a tempest.
605,
606
Of representing the deluge.
607,
608,
609
Of depicting natural phenomena.
610,
611
Of chalk and paper.
612,
613,
614,
615,
616,
617
On the preparation and use of colours.
618,
619,
620,
621,
622,
623,
624,
625,
626,
627
Of preparing the panel.
628
The preparation of oils.
629,
630,
631,
632,
633,
634
On varnishes [or powders].
635,
636,
637
On chemical materials.
638,
639,
640,
641,
642,
643
. . .