4014758A Treatise on Painting — Of ReflexesJohn Francis RigaudLeonardo da Vinci

Chap. CCLXXV.Of Reflexes.

Reflexes will partake, more or less, both of the colour of the object which produces them, and of the colour of that object on which they are produced, in proportion as this latter body is of a smoother or more polished surface, than that by which they are produced.