Index to Part Two: Reflections and Composition (chs. 153-174)
Tavola entries on reverberation, reflected colour, and composing figures in histories
A page of the index (Tavola) to Part Two, running-head 'Tavola,' listing chapters 153-174 with folio references. The bulk of the entries concern reflections: reverberation and where it cannot occur, the reflected lights that surround shadows, their brightness, the reflected colours of flesh, and how no reflected colour is simple. The page closes with headings on the limits of reflections and on learning to compose figures together in histories.
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Finished versus confused things; direction of light
The opening entries (chs. 153-158) treat finish and light. Headings cover things finished and confused, figures that appear separated rather than joined, whether light on the face or from the side gives more grace, reverberation, and where luminous reverberation cannot occur.
The behaviour and colour of reflections
A long central series (chs. 159-172) treats reflected light. Headings include the reflected lights that surround shadows, where reflections are brighter or dimmer, the reflected colours of flesh, doubled and tripled reflections, how no reflected colour is simple but mixed with others, and the limits of reflections in their ground.
Composing figures in a history
The closing entries (chs. 173-174) turn to composition. They treat the way of learning well to compose figures together in histories, and the placing of the first figure in the history.