The Age of Reason

Vol. I: IX. The Practice of Painting: 553.

Codex AtlanticusInventions and EngineeringLeonardo da VinciRenaissance Science

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The Da Vinci Notebooks Remember [to note] the situation of your figures; for the light and shade will be one thing if the object is in a dark place with a particular light, and another thing if it is in a light place with direct sunlight; one thing in a dark place with a diffused evening light or a cloudy sky, and another in the diffused light of the atmosphere lighted by the sun.

Vol. I: IX. The Practice of Painting: 553.

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