Leonardo's Shadows

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The work of Leonardo da Vinci on perspective, light, shadows, and color in painting.

In the first article entitled, The Color of Leonardo’s Shadows, we read about his obsession with shadows in painting. If you were to study his first painting Annunciation you would see the how the light is projected from the left of the painting and the shadows that are cast to the right from the angel Gabriel as he stand before Mary. The shadows are cast in various degrees of color. His use of color in his shadows shows the different angles and degrees of light that is being cast upon the scene. Light and shadows was something that Da Vinci study in length and even wrote as to why certain shadows cast different hues. Being an artist and an inventor Da Vinci