A Treatise on Painting
by Leonardo da Vinci, translated by John Francis Rigaud
Of the Perspective of Colours in dark Places
4015751A Treatise on Painting — Of the Perspective of Colours in dark PlacesJohn Francis RigaudLeonardo da Vinci

Chap. CCXCIV.Of the Perspective of Colours in dark Places.

In any place where the light diminishes in a gradual proportion till it terminates in total darkness, the colours also will lose themselves and be dissolved in proportion as they recede from the eye.