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


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LDE T0423   CID278  How to raise and loosen a Figure from its Ground

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If your Figure be obscure, bestow it on a bright Ground, and if it be bright, let it be seen on a dark Ground; if it be both bright and obscure, let the bright part be found on a dark Ground, and the part that is obscure, on a Ground that is bright.