VI. Perspective of Colour and Aerial Perspective: 307.

VI. Perspective of Colour and Aerial Perspective: 307.

307.

p. 166

OF PAINTING.

Of various colours which are none of them blue that which at a great distance will look bluest is the nearest to black; and so, conversely, the colour which is least like black will at a great distance best preserve its own colour.

Hence the green of fields will assume a bluer hue than yellow or white will, and conversely yellow or white will change less than green, and red still less.

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