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Title: A treatise of painting
Year: 1721 (1720s)
Authors: Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519
Subjects: Painting
Publisher: London : Pinted for J. Senex ... and W. Taylor ...
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
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the Ground i$ nc-Reafbn of this isowing to the Curve SurfacescefTary in of Bodies, which of neceflity growing dark onPainting. t^at g^e turneci frorn the Light, the differencebetween the Ground and that fide of the Figure,becomes very bold and confpicuous: It muft fur-ther be obferved, that the illuminated part of aFigure ought never to terminate on a Groundbrightned by its principal Light j To preventwhich, it may be advifeable, between thoGround and the chief Light, to interpofe theExtremity of fome other Body, more obfeure than XaJj . J. . VoJvUout/nmtintf papc y-4-
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¥ By Leonardo da Vinci. 9$ Had either the Ground or the Light, refpe-ftively. To make a bright Figure appear with Ad-How to fuit(vantage, you mutt fhow it on a Dark Ground; your Groundsas to let off an Obfcure Figure, your Ground10 >our Fi~imift be bright, for White ever appears the belt,gurcs*■beared Black •, and in general, all contraries ap-pear with a fnperior Force, when oppoied onem another. Of limple Colours, the firit in order is White: OffimpIeCo-Ithis, and Black, we know are excluded by the 1?urs *ndPhilofopher out of the number of Colours, the^Compo(one being the caufe of Colour, and the other itsprivation-, however, inafmuch as they are indif-peniibly neccflary for a Painter, we fhall notfcrnplc to admit them among the reft, yielding(the fir ft place among fim pie Colours to White,■eilow has the fecond, Green the third, Azureme fourth, Red the fifth, and Black the fixth :white we (hall lay down for Light, withoutphich no Colour can be feen-, we mult havefellow to

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