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A Treatise on Painting, by Leonardo da Vinci
1721
Senex and Taylor, London


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LDE T0241   CID143  Of the Perspective of Colours

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The Primary Colours must be all pure and simple, and the Degrees of their weakening, and those of their distances must agree reciprocally to each other; that is, the bigness of Objects must partake more of the bigness of their Point of view, as they are nearer it; and in the same manner, the Colours must participate more of the Colour of their Horizon, as they approach nearer thereto.