Regina Silveira, Profile and Shadow

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In his treatise on painting, Leonardo da Vinci devotes a heading to "shadows that do not match the illuminated object." "All bodies send their likeness throughout the surrounding air, as it is proven by perspective." Although prose sounds literary to us, the treaty is an essentially technical book, which teaches neophytes how to represent "correctly" the world according to the rules (exact and mathematical) of the "science of painting." The purp…