A Treatise on Painting
by Leonardo da Vinci, translated by John Francis Rigaud
What Surface will shew most perfectly its true Colour
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Chap. CCXXIII.What Surface will shew most perfectly its true Colour.

That opake body will shew its colour more perfect and beautiful, which has near it another body of the same colour.