A Treatise on Painting, by Leonardo da Vinci
1721
Senex and Taylor, London
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In Buildings which are seen from a far, either in the Morning or Evening, the Weather being Foggy, or the Air very Gross; those sides alone become visible, which are turned towards the Horizon, and illumined by the Sun: The other Parts of the Buildings, unillumined by the Sun, remaining almost of the Colour of the Fog, and scarcely to be distinguished from it.