Index: shadows of plants, trees, meadows, and landscapes
Chapter list [889]-[914] on rendering foliage, greenery, and misty landscapes
This page of the chapter index lists entries [889] through [914], each keyed to its folio, all concerned with how a painter should represent vegetation and landscape. The headings treat the shadows and transparency of leaves, the color of foliage, young plants, and the growth of branches, together with meadows and their grasses. A closing group turns to landscapes in painting, the mist that veils them at sunrise or sunset, trees seen from below, and a description of the elm.
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Leaves, foliage, and the growth of trees
Many entries concern plant form: the transparency and color of leaves [890]-[896], trees that send their branches straight up [897], and which part of a branch is darkest [908]. The list closes with a description of the elm [914].
Rendering the shadows of foliage
Several headings caution the painter on shadow: never to render leaves as transparent in the sun [892], dark leaves set before transparent ones [894], and why the shadows of leafy branches appear weaker near their lit parts than in the parts opposite [907].
Meadows, mist, and distant views
A final group treats landscape proper: meadows and their grasses [903]-[904], landscapes in painting [906], the mist that covers a countryside at sunrise or sunset [910]-[912], and trees seen from below [913].