Index of Part Two: colour of distance and grounds (233-255)
Chapter titles on distant colour, reflected light, grades of painting and grounds.
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 233-255) treat the grounds of painted things, the colours of things removed from the eye, the grades of painting, and the colour and mirroring of sea water. Further entries ask whence the blue of the air is born, why white is not a colour, and the colours of incident and reflected lights, with one framed as adversary and reply. The italic hand is neat and fully legible.
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Distant colour, reflected light and the blue of air
This stretch of the index treats the colours of things removed from the eye, the colour of shadows of any body, and the colours of incident and reflected lights. It also asks whence the blue of the air is born and why white is not a colour, with one entry framed as adversary and reply.
Grades of painting, grounds and mixed colours
Other entries cover the grades of painting, the nature of comparisons, and the grounds of painted figures and bodies. One entry explains why placing things on a light ground is useful in painting, and another the colours that result from mixing others, called second species.