{"collection":"aor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/aor/dv/0014.htm","path":"aor/dv/0014.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/aor/dv/0014.htm","text":"The Da Vinci Notebooks\nThe plan of the book on Painting (14--17).There are three branches of perspective; the first deals with the reasons of the (apparent) diminution of objects as they recede from the eye, and is known as Diminishing Perspective.--The second contains the way in which colours vary as they recede from the eye. The third and last is concerned with the explanation of how the objects [in a picture] ought to be less finished in proportion as they are remote (and the names are as follows):\nLinear Perspective.\nThe Perspective of Colour.\nThe Perspective of Disappearance.\n15 .\n16:15 : 13. From the character of the handwriting I infer that this passage was written before the year 1490.","title":"Vol. I: I. Prolegomena and General Introduction to the Book on Painting: 14.","type":"page"}