OF SHADOWS ON BODIES.

When you represent the dark shadows in bodies in light and shade,

always show the cause of the shadow, and the same with reflections;

because the dark shadows are produced by dark objects and the

reflections by objects only moderately lighted, that is with

diminished light. And there is the same proportion between the

highly lighted part of a body and the part lighted by a reflection

as between the origin of the lights on the body and the origin of

the reflections.

557.

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