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IX. The Practice of Painting: 619.

619.

Use black in the shadow, and in the lights white, yellow, green, vermilion and lake. Medium shadows; take the shadow as above and mix it with the flesh tints just alluded to, adding to it a little yellow and a little green and occasionally some lake; for the shadows take green and lake for the middle shades.

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    618 and 619: If we may judge from the flourishes with which the writing is ornamented these passages must have been written in Leonardo's youth.

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