A Treatise on Painting/Chapter 327

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A Treatise on Painting
by Leonardo da Vinci, translated by John Francis Rigaud

What Greens will appear most of a blueish Cast

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4017035A Treatise on Painting — What Greens will appear most of a blueish CastJohn Francis RigaudLeonardo da Vinci

Chap. CCCXXVII.—What Greens will appear most of a blueish Cast.

Those greens will appear to approach nearest to blue which are of the darkest shade when remote. This is proved by the seventh proposition^[1], which says, that blue is composed of black and white seen at a great distance.

↑ Vide chap. ccxcii. ccciii.

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[1] Vide chap. ccxcii. ccciii.

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