A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . OF THE NECESSITIE AND DEFINITION OF PROPORTION. CHaT. IK -. T was not without iuft caufc that the ancient Grecians(at what time the art of Painting had fully attained tohis perfection,by the induftry oT TimantesJLufenidasyAristides^Eupompus Stcyonius, and Pamphilus the fa-mous Macedonian painter5and matter of Apelles, whoalio was the firft learned painter, directing his workesi by the rules of arte,aboue any of his prcdeceflors, andwell confidering, that whatfocucr was made withoutmeafure and proportion,could never enrr
A tracte containing the artes of curious paintinge, caruinge & buildinge . OF THE NECESSITIE AND DEFINITION OF PROPORTION. CHaT. IK -. T was not without iuft caufc that the ancient Grecians(at what time the art of Painting had fully attained tohis perfection,by the induftry oT TimantesJLufenidasyAristides^Eupompus Stcyonius, and Pamphilus the fa-mous Macedonian painter5and matter of Apelles, whoalio was the firft learned painter, directing his workesi by the rules of arte,aboue any of his prcdeceflors, andwell confidering, that whatfocucr was made withoutmeafure and proportion,could never enrry with it any Inch congruity, asmight reprelent either beauty ox grace to the iudicious bcholderjwcre wontto (aYjthat it was impoflible to make any tollerable,much Iefle commenda-ble picture,without the helpe of Geometry and Arithmeticke^whtrfoxc theyrequired the knowledge therof, as a thing mod: neceflaryrwhicfo faying wasalfo approved by Philip Macedo. And furely it is impoflible/ to omit themeere artifans) that he who is ignorant of thefe two fciencfis, fhould vn-derftand theexadtmeafureandproportion of any probable ortruebod
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