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


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LDE T0418   CID273  Of the Grounds proper for Figures

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Since we find by Experience, that every Body is encompassed, with Lights, and Shadows, let me advise the Painter, so to dispose his Figures, as that their illumined parts be found on dark Grounds; as on the contrary, their shadowed parts on Grounds, that are more bright: the Observation of which Rule, you will find to contribute very considerably to the Relievo of Figures.