FROM WHENCE TO DEPICT A LANDSCAPE

Landscapes should be represented so that the trees may be half in

light and half in shadow; but it is better to do them when the sun

is covered with clouds, for then the trees are lighted by the

general light of the sky, and the general darkness of the earth. And

then they are darkest in certain parts in proportion as those parts

are nearest to the middle of the tree and to the earth.

The effects of morning light (444-448).

444.

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