Index of Part Two: colour, shadow and glazing (197-213)
Chapter titles on the colour of shadows, colour perspective and glazing, with page references.
A table-of-contents page headed 'TAVOLA' continuing the index to the Second Part of the Treatise on Painting, with chapter titles keyed to page references. The entries (numbered 197-213) are devoted almost wholly to colour: which colour makes a darker shadow, the perspective of colours, colours that do or do not change with the thickness of the air, and the beauty of colour on the lights. It closes on the green made from copper rust and the mixing of colours. The hand is a clean italic, fully legible.
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Colour, shadow and the thickness of air
These entries index the physics of colour in painting: which colour makes a darker shadow, colours that do or do not change through varying thicknesses of air, and the perspective of colours. Others treat the cause of the loss of colours and shape of bodies in darkness, and how nothing shows its true colour without light from a like colour.
Beauty of colour, glazing and verdigris
Further entries concern where a colour is most beautiful, namely on the lights rather than the shadows, the change of transparent colours laid or glazed over others, and the comparison of colours against their grounds. The page ends on the green made from copper rust (verdigris) and the increase of its beauty, and opens the topic of mixing colours.