A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . WHENCE ALL PROPOR-TIONS DOE ARISE. CHAT. XXIX,. He Grecians in imitation of antiquiticfearched outthe truely renowned proportion, wherein theexad*perfection of moftexquifite beauty and Iweetenefleappcareth; dedicating the fame in a triangular glaflevnto Venus the Goddefle of diuinc beauty, fromwhence all the beauty of inferiour things is dcriuedoHowbeit I omitting that glafle, will demonftrate it inan ifopleuros triangle, which confifting ofifirami- dull forme hath 2 fides equall, and the third which is the bafe vncqual
A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . WHENCE ALL PROPOR-TIONS DOE ARISE. CHAT. XXIX,. He Grecians in imitation of antiquiticfearched outthe truely renowned proportion, wherein theexad*perfection of moftexquifite beauty and Iweetenefleappcareth; dedicating the fame in a triangular glaflevnto Venus the Goddefle of diuinc beauty, fromwhence all the beauty of inferiour things is dcriuedoHowbeit I omitting that glafle, will demonftrate it inan ifopleuros triangle, which confifting ofifirami- dull forme hath 2 fides equall, and the third which is the bafe vncquall,ai appearcth in the figure, -L. io Fates. Diuidc the fhorteft line a reprefenting the bafe of the Tyransis into 1 o e-quall partes, by elcuen lines equidiftantly drawne to the tone or eicofthepyramis. Firftthen vpon the line a noting 10 fates, you fhall take thebreadth ohhc womans proportion mentioned before tap. 12. which is aliodiuidedinto fb many parts, following the fame proportionably in all thelaid faces both before and bebinde, fide-long and backwards together withthe armes, obferuingin the breadth of each m
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