Index of Part Two: colour, greenery and grounds (213-232)
Chapter titles on colour at a distance, greenery, and painted grounds, with page references.
A table-of-contents page headed 'SECVNDA' with the folio number 307, continuing the index to the Second Part of the Treatise on Painting. It opens by completing the entry on mixing colours ('which mixing extends toward infinity') and then indexes chapters 214-232 on the surfaces most receptive of colour, flesh-tones, the greenery and clarity of landscapes, and the treatment of grounds (campi). Entries cover diminution of colour with distance and the interposed air, and how to remedy when white ends on white and dark on dark. The italic hand is clean and fully legible.
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Surfaces most receptive of colour
Continuing the entry on mixing that extends toward infinity, these titles treat the surface of every shadowed body, which surface is most receptive of colour, and which part of a body is most tinged by the colour of its object. Others ask which body shows its true colour best and how a same colour varies at various distances from the eye.
Greenery and clarity of landscapes
Several entries concern colour in the open country: the greenery seen in the countryside, which greenery appears more blue, and the clarity of landscapes. One entry treats things mirrored in the waters of landscapes, and first of the air.
Grounds for lights and shadows
The closing entries index the treatment of backgrounds (campi): grounds suiting shadows and lights, how to remedy when white ends on white and dark on dark, the nature of grounds against which white stands out, and the grounds of figures. The flesh-tones of faces are also indexed.