A Treatise on Painting
by Leonardo da Vinci, translated by John Francis Rigaud
The Brilliancy of a Landscape
4017075A Treatise on Painting — The Brilliancy of a LandscapeJohn Francis RigaudLeonardo da Vinci

Chap. CCCXLIII.The Brilliancy of a Landscape.

The vivacity and brightness of colours in a landscape will never bear any comparison with a landscape in nature when illumined by the sun, unless the picture be placed so as to receive the same light from the sun itself.