Index to Part Two: Parts of Painting and What to Depict (chs. 125-152)
Tavola entries on the divisions of painting, beauty, figures, and depicting scenes
A page of the index (Tavola) to Part Two, running-head 'Secunda,' listing chapters 125-152 with folio references. The entries treat further precepts, how the first painting came to be, seeing a picture from a single window, and the division of painting into eight or five parts, including linear painting and shadow. A large second group concerns the choice of beautiful faces, how to depict children, old men, women, and old women, and how to depict a night, a storm, a battle, and distant things.
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The parts and origin of painting
The opening entries (chs. 125-136) set out the theory of the art. Headings cover precepts of the painter, a memory the author makes to himself, how the first painting came to be, seeing painting from a single window, the division of painting into eight and into five parts, linear painting, and painting as shadow.
Beauty and how to depict people of every age
A central cluster (chs. 137-145) treats the human figure and beauty. Headings include the choice of beautiful faces, the air that gives grace to faces, beauties and uglinesses, judges of various beauties, and how to depict children, old men, women, and old women.
Depicting night, storm, battle, and distance
The closing entries (chs. 146-152) concern the rendering of scenes and space. Headings cover how to depict a night, a storm (fortuna), and a battle, the way of rendering distant things, making the air lighter toward the horizon, making figures stand out from their ground, and depicting the size of painted things.