Francisci Aguilonii, Opticorum libri sex

Liber Primus, Propositio XXXIX Theorema,
quinque sunt simplicium colorum species, ac tres compositae






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We would like to know with whom the antecedence lies :
whether the color notions expressed by d’Aguilon,
and carried out by Rubens in his painting after the model of the text,
are really the work of that scientist,
or whether, on the contrary,
they were handed complete to the scientist by Rubens.

AGUILONIUS' OPTICS AND RUBENS' COLOR
CHARLES PARKHURST
Netherlands Yearbook for History of Art Vol. 12, pp. 35-49
Brill, 1961