Index of Part Two: true colour and aerial perspective (256-262)
Final chapter titles of the Second Part, ending on aerial perspective.
A table-of-contents page headed 'SECVNDA' with the folio number 308, holding the short final column of the index to the Second Part of the Treatise on Painting; the lower three-quarters of the leaf is blank. Its seven entries (256-262) treat colours mirrored on lustrous things, the colours of bodies, the true colour, and the colour of mountains. The list closes with how the painter should put the perspective of colours into practice and, finally, aerial perspective, keyed to page 78. The italic hand is clean and fully legible.
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True colour and aerial perspective
The short final column of the index treats colours mirrored upon lustrous things, the colours of bodies, and the true colour. It closes the Second Part with the colour of mountains, how the painter should put the perspective of colours into practice, and aerial perspective, referenced to page 78.
Colour of mountains and true colour
Entry 260 indexes the colour of the mountains and entry 259 the true colour, both bearing on how distance and interposed air alter perceived colour. These lead into the concluding chapter on aerial perspective.