A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . co-lours cleane decaied by the comming betweene of the aire. Such experi-ments of painters concerning this matter (who haue farther perfwadedthemfelues that without this diftance they could frame all thinges,makingthem carry as perfect a refemblance, as if they were done by rule; and thatthey could finde out this diftance, which before 1 haue fhewed to be moftrare and beautifull in all workes,and know by the fame wherin ir confifteth,iudgingtherby which are the moft beautifull wotkes with fuch like mifte-riesoffpeciall
A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . co-lours cleane decaied by the comming betweene of the aire. Such experi-ments of painters concerning this matter (who haue farther perfwadedthemfelues that without this diftance they could frame all thinges,makingthem carry as perfect a refemblance, as if they were done by rule; and thatthey could finde out this diftance, which before 1 haue fhewed to be moftrare and beautifull in all workes,and know by the fame wherin ir confifteth,iudgingtherby which are the moft beautifull wotkes with fuch like mifte-riesoffpeciall worth) gauevs thefirftoccafiontomakevieof Distance,*thing truely knowne but to very fewe. And thofe fcwe who were acquain-ted therewith, haue neither taught it to any, nor committed it to writing:faue onely Vincentim Foppa, Andreas tMantegna, Leonard, and Bernar-do Zenale, ofwhofe workes (written very obicurely) little hath coiretomy fight. OF OF PEVLSTECTIFE. 201 If! #######*##•&*$:#&#•&#•*::?«##<&«&•& OF THE OB- I EC T. CHJT. IX. I. H E 0£/V#isthe thing which ftanding before our sutbefixieies, is feene ofvs ,of what quantity foeuer it be, fo ££«it be not fo fmall that it flie the fight. And this fhould neuer ftand nearer to v s, then that fpace which in theformer Chapter I haue allowed for the ordinary di-ftance. Nowe whofbeuer fTtall imagine any otherobie6t, is much deceaued. Wherefore in paintinganyhiftoryitis required, that the firft thing whichyou would reprefent vpon a wall or table,be of a competent bignefle, thatfo all the reft may rateably receaue their iuft: proportion. And this firft i^>«.figure is called the T^aturall: which muft bee reprefentedftanding,inamanner in the beginning oftheendeofthediftance taken, from whencewhatfoeuer you would place inwardes towardes the * cie, ought to be pro-»_, h .portionably diminifiied,according as the lines or beams (hall extend them- „„ „/ a, be-felues. For whatfoeuer you place behinde the obiect or
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